No evidence supports the existence of haunted houses, but in a largely secular society, an increasing number...
Day: February 28, 2019
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
The Milky Way / NASA, Public Domain It is instructive to see how quickly nonsense claims evaporate...
In 1876 Lewis Carroll published by far his longest poem – a fantastical epic tale recounting the...
She disappears and rises back into view, covered in theory. In the year 1900, the eerily disembodied...
Flickr, Creative Commons The recent intrusion of pseudoscience into mainstream scientific literature is a cause for concern....
The spiral of Theodorus up to the triangle with a hypotenuse of √17 / Wikimedia Commons A pseudoscience is...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
The vanishing of John Knight and his three companions. Introduction On June 19, 1606, John Knight ran...