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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cryptozoology is a type of fringe science that attempts to prove the existence of creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot.Credit: CineBlade/Shutterstock Imagine a universe rife with cosmic ...

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When a few bad scientists have caused years of setbacks with faulty data on things like global warming and vaccines, it’s easy to demonize “incorrect” science and bad hypotheses as bad for humanity.

Editor’s Note: Since this article was published, Spiro Pantazatos has informed The Daily Beast of published materials that were not cited in the original article, which he suggests indicate ...