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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 ...

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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 ...

People who trust science are more likely to be duped into believing and disseminating pseudoscience, finds a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Pseudoscience is false ...

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 ...

Like other strains of misinformation, racist pseudoscience destroys faith in science, makes the act of conducting responsible research more challenging, and causes bodily harm. In the aftermath of the ...

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 ...

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