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A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.
A jazz funeral celebrates the return and remembrance of 19 African American individuals taken for racial pseudoscience over ...
While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one ...
After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German medical research, are being sent home.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...