A critical, evidence-based response to Patrick James examining pyramid conspiracies, pseudoscience, and lost civilization claims through rigorous...
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience gives unsupported claims the appearance of scientific authority. Read how misleading theories gained credibility and persisted despite contrary evidence.
Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are not fringe anomalies but recurring features of human history, shadows that accompany...
From Robert Hare’s experiments with mediums to J. B. Rhine’s ESP trials and modern debates over psi,...
Deception should have no place in the scientific ecosystem. Deception is natural. All animals do it as...
Smart people can have really bad ideas – like selectively breeding human beings to allegedly “improve” the...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
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...
Untitled (Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA), 2008, Ken Gonzales-Day. Chromogenic...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology produced by William Bally in 1832. Image Credit:Â Science Museum,...