Ancient aliens. Astrology. Flat-Earth and UFO conspiracies. These are examples of pseudoscience, a system of beliefs that masquerades as true science but is far from it. To understand how ...

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 ...

In recent years, disinformation has seemed to be on an inexorable march across the scientific and medical landscape. Prominent politicians, up to and including the former president, have promoted ...

The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be ...

One of the leading theories of consciousness, known as integrated information theory or IIT, has been branded a pseudoscience in an open letter by 124 neuroscientists, including some of the field’s ...

Philip Goff has received funding from the Templeton Foundation. Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing ...

Craig Foster is affiliated with facilitatedcommunication.org. Anything else to declare: I am a Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow. While teaching a course on research methods at the United States ...

The intersection of social media platforms with scientific communication remains a turbulent and complex field of positive actors and progressive change, as well as the exploitation and distribution ...

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With Amazon well on its way to overtaking Walmart as the top retailer in the world, it sadly makes sense that the E-commerce giant would be one of the largest purveyors of pseudoscience. Lax oversight ...