Why People Believe in Pseudoscience Pseudoscience provides something that real science often doesn’t: comfort. Science is often perceived as cold and indifferent. It seems strange to many people, and ...

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 ...

I teach at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and this semester I’m teaching a course called “Scientific, Pseudoscientific, and Medical Reasoning” (SPMR). At King’s, all students are ...

For the past 24 years, Elena has worked in epidemiology and evidence-based medicine, assessing the quality of research ...

Craig Foster doesn’t mean to step on Bigfoot’s mythical toes but, in a world of instant information and dangerous data, he thinks it’s important to develop skills that allow you to determine fact from ...

Last week, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault on vaccines and science escalated, with the cancellation of Moderna’s federal funding to develop a vaccine for bird flu, ...

Recently, I came across a post on the popular Ask Reddit page from user Ninac4116 asking, "What are some things that are actually pseudoscience that people don’t realize?" and OMG, I'm actually kind ...

Zecharia Sitchin’s books claim the Anunnaki were extraterrestrials from Nibiru who engineered humans to mine gold 445,000 years ago. While archaeologists view this as pseudoscience, Sumerian texts and ...

The closing of Princeton University’s controversial Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at the end of this month has corroborated the opinions of many in the science world who believe ...