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That U.S. House candidate Paul Nehlen is an anti-Semite is not surprising. That the Wisconsin Republican, trounced by House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2016, was outed by puffing the retired psychologist ...

Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about ...

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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 ...

There is no such thing as pseudoscience, and Michael Gordin has written a book about it. In On the Fringe, Gordin, a historian at Princeton University, does not deny that there are endeavors afoot in ...

Facebook has been letting advertisers target users interested in "pseudoscience," allowing them to capitalize on the conspiracy theories and misinformation regarding coronavirus that have run rampant ...

Donald Trump is no stranger to pseudoscience and conspiracy theory. The president has associated himself with many known conspiracy theorists. And he’s been spreading unsubstantiated scientific claims ...

Last week, Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault on vaccines and science escalated, with the cancellation of Moderna’s federal funding to develop a vaccine for bird flu, ...

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 ...

Zac Efron doesn’t say much except “Dude” and “Wow” in his Netflix docu-series Down to Earth. It’s a mostly innocuous show. If you’re the type of person who’s into the actor’s buff, scruffy bro-dude ...

Have we reached peak green juice? The New York Times' Brooks Barnes suggests as much in a recent story about what a haute-hippie refuge in California is bringing to an already over-saturated market: ...