Whenever there is a vacuum of ignorance about any topic, the void is quickly filled by pseudoscientific nonsense.

In their new book, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen survey flat Earth theory, fake moon landings and other scientific myths and why people believe them.

Pseudoscience, once confined to the fringes, now floods our social media feeds, seeps into our political discourse, and influences public health decisions. With the rise of conspiracy theories and ...

Alas, it seems the opposite is true. If Oprah endorses it, odds are it’s pseudoscience. Hers is a strange, unethical, and bizarre system, but it’s a commercially beneficial one. From Oprah ...

The report reads less like a medical analysis and more like an anti-trans screed—politicized, inflammatory, and devoid of scholarly grounding,” writes journalist Erin Reed in comprehensively ...

The claim that transgender status is immutable and biologically based was raised in the recent case of Talbott v. Trump. Eight plaintiffs—six active-duty service members and two individuals seeking to ...

They also address broader questions, such as the relationship between the truth value of literature and the truth value of the sciences; how pseudoscience intersects with broader issues of knowledge ...

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives of millions before he was stopped. Jon Garelick is a retired Globe ...

Dean of the College Michael D. Gordin’s book “On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience” has been named the Princeton Pre-read for the Class of 2029. The book, which uses history and philosophy ...

A recent publication examined an egregious example pseudoscience, brainspotting, for its lack of plausible underlying neural mechanisms of psychopathology and for its promotion of a method of ...