Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An orange/yellow lit curve of the earth is bordered by a bright atmospheric layer that turns to blue and fades to black. Ancient ...

The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be ...

Though it's hard to pin down what makes science science, certain criteria can help us spot pseudoscience when it presents itself as science, says... Drawing the boundary between science and ...

There is no such thing as pseudoscience, and Michael Gordin has written a book about it. In On the Fringe, Gordin, a historian at Princeton University, does not deny that there are endeavors afoot in ...

When it comes to the Wild West of miracle sure supplements, diets, detoxes, and other scientifically dubious products, there’s a new sheriff in town—many, in fact. For years, advocates and ...

During my first term of full-time teaching in 1977, I used astrology as a case study in my course in the philosophy of science. The goal was to guide the students through the differences between ...