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

Pseudoscience is a "claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific... but lacks supporting evidence or cannot be reliably tested." America is awash in it. Right now, our education system ...

Drawing the boundary between science and pseudoscience isn't always straightforward. Amid the clear extremes is a murky territory occupied by bad science, fraudulent science, and sometimes even ...

Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about ...

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made us more vulnerable to misinformation. Pseudoscience, once confined to the ...

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted another fringe theory about autism – linking it to circumcision or to pain medication given for the procedure.

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

That U.S. House candidate Paul Nehlen is an anti-Semite is not surprising. That the Wisconsin Republican, trounced by House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2016, was outed by puffing the retired psychologist ...

The witness on the stand pauses before answering, then looks briefly up and to the right while giving a response. While listening to the next question, she places a finger over her lips, angles her ...

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Whole Foods is an American-founded “natural” grocery store, specializing in wholesome and organic foods, that has now expanded into Canada and the UK. It also does not purvey foods made from ...