Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without ...

Drawing the boundary between science and pseudoscience isn't always straightforward. Amid the clear extremes is a murky territory occupied by bad science, fraudulent science, and sometimes even ...

Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about ...

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made us more vulnerable to misinformation. Pseudoscience, once confined to the ...

Pseudoscience is a "claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific... but lacks supporting evidence or cannot be reliably tested." America is awash in it. Right now, our education system ...

[Note: This is a version of a post that first appeared here. I'm running it today because science consumption doesn't happen only through what we read in the news media. Sciencey-ness is sold to us by ...

There is no such thing as pseudoscience, and Michael Gordin has written a book about it. In On the Fringe, Gordin, a historian at Princeton University, does not deny that there are endeavors afoot in ...

That U.S. House candidate Paul Nehlen is an anti-Semite is not surprising. That the Wisconsin Republican, trounced by House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2016, was outed by puffing the retired psychologist ...

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