Drawing the boundary between science and pseudoscience isn't always straightforward. Amid the clear extremes is a murky territory occupied by bad science, fraudulent science, and sometimes even ...

A white woman with blonde hair and blue eyes saying she has “good jeans,” after bragging about her “genes,” is not a ...

The vice president is just the latest GOP politician to offer a robust defense of Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans ad.

In the ten-plus years I've been writing about neuromarketing, I've bemoaned the lack of serious academic research into the various neuroscience-based techniques used to evaluate ads, products ...

Influencers on social media tout the benefits of okra-infused water for glucose control. But experts are skeptical — at best.

Pseudoscience is taking over social media and putting us all at risk Conspiracy theories are drowning out legitimate facts which could negatively impact human behaviour in the future ...

Pseudoscience is “a big problem”, Stea, the author of Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry, a new book that raises the concerns about psychological ...

A new report by a joint commission of the World Health Organization, the medical journal The Lancet and UNICEF has ranked the United States the 39th best country on Earth for raising children ...

But the problem of how to write about pseudoscience goes much broader. In part that’s because quack science has penetrated so deeply into public discourse -- witness the huge audience tuning in ...

The Ku Klux Klan protests on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Ku Klux Klan protests on July 8, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Getty That U.S. House candidate Paul Nehlen is an ...