Pseudoscience, once confined to the fringes, now floods our social media feeds, seeps into our political discourse, and influences public health decisions. With the rise of conspiracy theories and ...

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 ...

A young woman who regrets taking hormones and having surgery to "become a boy" as a troubled teenager called the gender treatments she received "pseudoscience" and medical "quackery" that left her ...

The study of psychic abilities—often called psi or noetic sciences by its believers, and parapsychology or even simply pseudoscience by mainstream scientists—is undoubtedly a fringe topic.

It's called "Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas And Why We Love Them." Co-authors Dr. Lydia Kang and historian Nate Pedersen join me now to talk about it. Welcome to the program.

I encounter pseudoscience everywhere I go. And I have to admit, it can be frustrating. But in all my years of working with the public, I’ve found a potential strategy. And that strategy doesn ...

I later realized, however, that it was more informative to provide a list of typical features of pseudoscience rather than a strict definition, and hence provided profiles of science and ...

During that time, I’ve seen so many patients hurt by pseudoscience circulating in the wellness industry. I’ve seen an explosion of mental health misinformation on social media and in popular ...

The Ministry of Education will develop new mechanisms to prevent and sanction the promotion of pseudoscience in education, ...