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 ...

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 ...

Let’s sit back and take inventory of all the things that make science exactly what it is. There are the careful measurement techniques. The various apparatuses used to perform experiments in the ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original here. The word “pseudoscience” is used to describe something that is portrayed as scientific but fails to ...

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 ...

A casual glance at my high school report card might make that hard to believe, but it’s true. If social studies is the mythology of how we came to be where we are today, science is the magic. The ...

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 ...

During my first term of full-time teaching in 1977, I used astrology as a case study in my course in the philosophy of science. The goal was to guide the students through the differences between ...

Though it's hard to pin down what makes science science, certain criteria can help us spot pseudoscience when it presents itself as science, says... Drawing the boundary between science and ...