Craig Foster doesn’t mean to step on Bigfoot’s mythical toes but, in a world of instant information and dangerous data, he thinks it’s important to develop skills that allow you to determine fact from ...

Pseudoscience, on the other hand, doesn’t change. Pseudoscience only aims to mimic science without actually doing the research. Pseudoscience sounds genuine but doesn’t follow the set of accepted ...

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 ...

I teach at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and this semester I’m teaching a course called “Scientific, Pseudoscientific, and Medical Reasoning” (SPMR). At King’s, all students are ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen, authors of "Pseudoscience," about why people want to believe in things like Bigfoot, palm reading, and spontaneous human combustion.

One of the leading theories of consciousness, known as integrated information theory or IIT, has been branded a pseudoscience in an open letter by 124 neuroscientists, including some of the field’s ...

I chose to sit at home last week and watch the "debate" over evolution between scientist Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham. It was particularly illuminating the way that Ham, by the end of the debate, ...