Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without ...

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 ...

It’s not immediately clear, to the layman, what the essential difference is between science and something masquerading as science: pseudoscience. The distinction gets at the core of what comprises ...

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 ...

Princeton University historian Michael Gordin has been researching pseudoscience for a new book, and he has good news and bad for those scientists determined to keep their pursuit free of imposters.

Science is not a set of beliefs about the natural world. Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of false information available. No proof or ...

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 ...

Like us, so many people in New York love this educational treasure. What we don't love is the pseudoscience junk that we recently found for sale in its gift shop. There are few places in New York City ...

Hubble Space Telescope-Image of Supernova. — NASA/ESA (CC BY 3.0) Hubble Space Telescope-Image of Supernova. — NASA/ESA (CC BY 3.0) More than slightly tired of ...