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This spring, the New York State legislature has an opportunity to confront an overlooked yet troubling aspect of its criminal legal system.
Baham leads a team of academics who have worked to return the 19 skulls back to New Orleans after more than a century of ...
Bigfoot sightings, ghost hunting, consuming Benadryl to see the Hat Man: The national imagination can be wild — it can also ...
The MAHA movement exploits fears, oversimplifies health issues, and manipulates public sentiment for financial gain, rather ...
Goop deserves the backlash it gets, especially with shows like The Goop Lab now airing on Netflix and amplifying ...
A recent publication examined an egregious example pseudoscience, brainspotting, for its lack of plausible underlying neural mechanisms of psychopathology and for its promotion of a method of ...
Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over ...
The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled pseudoscience, had Stalin’s backing, and promoted notions that wrecked the lives of millions before he was stopped. Jon Garelick is a retired Globe ...
In their latest collaboration, Pseudoscience, internal medicine physician Lydia Kang and historian Nate Pedersen examine such myths from the past and present and scrutinize the evidence (or lack ...
The claim that transgender status is immutable and biologically based was raised in the recent case of Talbott v. Trump. Eight plaintiffs—six active-duty service members and two individuals seeking to ...
But is it pseudoscience? And if so, is that a problem? Few branding concepts spark as much debate as the brand archetype framework, which suggests that brands embody one of twelve universally ...
An event at IIT-Bombay on the 'science of begetting a good progeny' sparked controversy, with students claiming it promoted pseudoscience. The seminar, led by an Ayurveda expert, reportedly ...