In this crazy era of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and people who think giants built Ohio’s mounds, appreciating the difference between actual facts and “alternative facts” has never been more ...

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 ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the politicization of health-prevention measures such as vaccination and mask-wearing have highlighted the need for people to accept and trust science. But trusting science ...

Hubble Space Telescope-Image of Supernova. — NASA/ESA (CC BY 3.0) Hubble Space Telescope-Image of Supernova. — NASA/ESA (CC BY 3.0) More than slightly tired of ...

Psychologists from the University of Barcelona have found that people who tend to believe in pseudoscience seek less evidence before reaching conclusions. They detailed their experiments used to reach ...

During my first term of full-time teaching in 1977, I used astrology as a case study in my course in the philosophy of science. The goal was to guide the students through the differences between ...

(via TEDEd) Pseudoscience is a set of theories, methods, and assumptions that appear scientific, but aren’t. In the worst cases, pseudoscience practitioners encourage this confusion to exploit people.

The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them. Since then, information overload continues unabated, and many people are ...

Pseudoscience is a system of explanations, methods, and assumptions that pose as science but don’t follow core scientific principles like testability and falsifiability. Pseudoscience is different ...

The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be ...