In recent years we have witnessed a boom in philosophical and psychological research on pseudoscience and related misbeliefs such as conspiracy theories. Not only are there more and more studies on ...

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

A letter, signed by 124 scholars and posted online last week, has caused an uproar in the consciousness-research community. It argues that a prominent theory describing what makes someone or something ...

If we want to understand how humans can produce scientific knowledge but are also vulnerable to a wide range of misbeliefs, then psychology is a good place to start. Psychologists have long been ...

The role played by YouTube's recommendation algorithm in unwittingly promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories is not entirely understood. Yet, this can have dire real-world consequences, ...

From creationism and climate-change denial to cold fusion, pseudoscience pervades the media, often drowning out real science. Michael Gordin's scholarly and highly readable The Pseudoscience Wars uses ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. The question is, why was there such a high concentration of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When it comes to pseudoscience you might consider yourself to be a sceptic But don’t give yourself too ...

A young woman who regrets taking hormones and having surgery to "become a boy" as a troubled teenager called the gender treatments she received "pseudoscience" and medical "quackery" that left her ...