Archaeologist Sean Rafferty says pseudoscience, which is not based on factual evidence, even when not blatant, is not harmless. ... Drawing the line between science and pseudoscience.

Pseudoscience is a practice that, from the outside, looks like science, but upon closer inspection, is revealed to be nothing but. And what makes a practice look like science?

The more we make real science accessible and relatable, the less power pseudoscience has. Let’s face it, we’re in a pretty dangerous spot. We’re facing real, significant climate change.

Swiss poet and preacher Johann Kaspar Lavater brought back an ancient “science.” Physiognomy, the idea of judging someone’s personality based on their face, was not a new idea. It had been discussed ...

The word pseudoscience means “false science,” and that’s where my definition starts. Pseudoscience is a practice, a mode of investigation, that looks like science but misses the point.

U.S. police departments have employed officers who are trained to be experts in detecting "drugged driving." The problem is, ...

And it’s that quality that defines pseudoscience: the term refers to “any discourse that kind of mimics the style of science,” explained co-author of the paper Tommaso Venturini, a ...

Pseudoscience touches on a breadth of scientific fallacies, from the trite, such as flat Earth theory and fake moon landings, to the obscure. Take ley lines. First conceived in the 1920s by ...

The pseudoscience of eugenics is making a comeback on the American right. In August, the HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias unmasked the Substack writer and academic Richard Hanania as ...

Pseudoscience pretends to compete with science, but it never actually argues the facts. It side steps them, ignores them, and provides a distraction. It dresses up a lie to make the believer feel ...