Historians estimate that between 60,000 to 70,000 Americans were eventually sterilized against their will, in at least 30 ...

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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 ...

Hi folks, it’s Kristen in New York. A reader wonders if her doctor’s recommendation for a cutting-edge therapy was maybe a little pseudoscience-y. But first... Is regenerative medicine considered more ...

The closing of Princeton University’s controversial Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at the end of this month has corroborated the opinions of many in the science world who believe ...

In 2024, it's growing increasingly easy to fall for pseudoscience. False cures, misinformation, and outright lies are rampant on social media, convincingly touted by influencers and quacks. The ...

In this crazy era of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and people who think giants built Ohio’s mounds, appreciating the difference between actual facts and “alternative facts” has never been more ...

"When people become sick, any promise of a cure is beguiling. Common sense and the demand for evidence are easily supplanted by false hope. In this vulnerable state, the need for critical appraisal of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the politicization of health-prevention measures such as vaccination and mask-wearing have highlighted the need for people to accept and trust science. But trusting science ...

Science is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head ...