Understanding the way pseudo-scientists think may be the key to refuting their arguments.(Flickr/Alex Proimos) In the face of climate change denial and attitudes against vaccinations, scientists have ...

Les pseudosciences profitent des zones floues pour s’y infiltrer et offrir leurs propres réponses, pour rassurer. PHOTO: getty images/istockphoto / trenchcoates La pseudoscience, c’est « des approches ...

Même pour l’observateur peu attentif, il est apparent que les nouvelles scientifiques ont la fâcheuse tendance de se contredire très souvent. Remarquez que la découverte de résultats scientifiques ...

We live in an era where information is more accessible than ever before. Paradoxically, this hasn’t made us wiser—it’s made us more vulnerable to misinformation. Pseudoscience, once confined to the ...

As a student, Princeton’s Dean of the College Michael Gordin took one class in the history of science and was hooked. “I was just drawn to the richness, the philosophical and the historical richness ...

Have you ever taken a personality test seriously? Or maybe you’ve wondered if you could freeze yourself in liquid nitrogen to help revitalize your body postmortem? Human tendencies to believe in such ...