Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without much reflection. From abandoned shopping carts to climate guilt over pet ...

One of the most common patterns in pseudoscience is the moment someone becomes absolutely certain they’ve cracked the code.

Public health experts said they can no longer rely solely on the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RFK Jr. began to scream at Senators after his pseudoscience was completely exposed during a tense hearing last year.

Cryptozoology is a type of fringe science that attempts to prove the existence of creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot.Credit: CineBlade/Shutterstock Imagine a universe rife with cosmic ...