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.

Any challenge to scientific dogma gets dismissed as pseudoscience. Isn't that a little arrogant? Pseudoscience is only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout much of the 20th century, the academic community had little patience with alchemists and their vain efforts to transmute base metals into gold. Any contemporary scholar who even dared ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite a myriad of warnings from both dentists and health experts, the state of Utah has moved to ban fluoride from public drinking water on the basis of “distorted pseudoscience”.