Public health experts said they can no longer rely solely on the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Pseudoscience is a "claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific... but lacks supporting evidence or cannot be reliably tested." America is awash in it. Right now, our education system ...

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made us more vulnerable to misinformation. Pseudoscience, once confined to the ...

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted another fringe theory about autism – linking it to circumcision or to pain ...

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 ...

When a few bad scientists have caused years of setbacks with faulty data on things like global warming and vaccines, it’s easy to demonize “incorrect” science and bad hypotheses as bad for humanity.

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s sit back and take inventory of all the things that make science exactly what it is. There are the careful measurement techniques. The various apparatuses used to perform experiments in the ...