Why People Believe in Pseudoscience—and Why It’s So Dangerous
We’re bombarded with pseudoscience every day—from social media conspiracy theories to politicians dismissing climate change with a snowball.
Tag: pseudoscience
Machine learning is bringing back an infamous pseudoscience used to fuel racism
The pseudoscientific practice of physiognomy, dismissed as junk science centuries ago, is seeing a high-tech revival.
Power lines over Lake Pontchartrain elegantly demonstrate the curvature of Earth
Set, Game, and Match, flat-earthers!
In Romania, distrust of vaccines claims children’s lives
Romania has a lesson for the entire world.
UK prospecting companies admit to using the medieval technique of dowsing
Companies are employing water witchery. To find water. In modern UK.
It’s time for another Fake Apocalypse — the Nibiru version
Nibiru just won't go away. At least in the minds of some people.
The story about the “breatharian” couple not eating any food, living from the “universe energy” is bogus — and people bought it
I don't need any food, the universe feeds me. Yeah...
Completely useless: Homeopathy no better than placebo, study confirms
While there is a full scientific consensus that homeopathy is a pseudoscience many people still believe in it.
Science Myths and Misconceptions You Probably Belive Are True
The world (and especially the internet) is riddled with false information and misconceptions - it's time to set this straight. ...
Rising Japanese scientist faked heralded stem cell research, lab says
Her short career was absolutely remarkable - before she was 20, Haruko Obokata was accepted into the science department at ...
Nonsense paper that cites Michael Jackson and Ron Jeremy gets published in Romanian magazine
Dragan Djuric and Boris Delibasic, two professors of FON (Faculty of Organizational Sciences), along with advisor Stevica Radisic deliberately published ...
