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 Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives ...

No amount of reported benefit can salvage a practice rooted in pseudoscience. The legal battle over gender-affirming care must shift focus. Legislation should not merely target procedures but ...

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 ...

But some have accused the quango of splurging taxpayers’ money on woke pseudoscience. Commonly cited examples come from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which has awarded grants ...

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

The book uses history and philosophy to explore how to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Members of the incoming Class of 2029 will read it this summer as part of their introduction to the ...

Dean of the College Michael D. Gordin’s On the Fringe has been selected as the Pre-read for the Class of 2029, exploring how ...

But an important victory is won when it becomes illegal to subject women to patriarchal pseudoscience. Virginity checks violate human rights – and that’s why they should be illegal in Sweden. Here, ...

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 ...

Reports show that this year's conference features speakers with ties to eugenics – the pseudoscience theory that certain genetic traits are better than others for human evolution – and other ...