Whenever there is a vacuum of ignorance about any topic, the void is quickly filled by pseudoscientific nonsense.

In their new book, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen survey flat Earth theory, fake moon landings and other scientific myths and why people believe them.

The report reads less like a medical analysis and more like an anti-trans screed—politicized, inflammatory, and devoid of scholarly grounding,” writes journalist Erin Reed in comprehensively ...

Pseudoscience, once confined to the fringes, now floods our social media feeds, seeps into our political discourse, and influences public health decisions. With the rise of conspiracy theories and ...

Alas, it seems the opposite is true. If Oprah endorses it, odds are it’s pseudoscience. Hers is a strange, unethical, and bizarre system, but it’s a commercially beneficial one. From Oprah ...

They also address broader questions, such as the relationship between the truth value of literature and the truth value of the sciences; how pseudoscience intersects with broader issues of knowledge ...

The claim that transgender status is immutable and biologically based was raised in the recent case of Talbott v. Trump. Eight plaintiffs—six active-duty service members and two individuals seeking to ...

Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.”– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted WorldThis month’s ...

But is it pseudoscience? And if so, is that a problem? Few branding concepts spark as much debate as the brand archetype framework, which suggests that brands embody one of twelve universally ...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives of millions before he was stopped. Jon Garelick is a retired Globe ...

This paper explored the intersection of science and pseudoscience in online discourse about detoxification, investigating how and to what extent they coexist on the web. Drawing on previous studies of ...