The paper has a straightforward title: "Emotional Problems Among Children With Same-Sex Parents: Difference by Definition." It's not hard to guess the conclusion of this research, released last month ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Note: This is a version of a post that first appeared here. I'm running it today because science consumption doesn't happen only through what we read in the news media. Sciencey-ness is sold to us by ...

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, ...

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 ...

One of the most common patterns in pseudoscience is the moment someone becomes absolutely certain they’ve cracked the code.

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 ...

In 2007, there was only one pediatric gender clinic in the United States. Now there are close to 100. It's impossible to overstate just how quickly the Left has radicalized on the issue of so-called ...

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 ...