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From phrenology to hysteria, the MSG scare and social Darwinism, the second floor of the library has artistic interpretations ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's called "Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas And Why We Love Them." Co-authors Dr. Lydia Kang and historian Nate Pedersen join me now to talk about it. Welcome to the program.
In biodynamic farming, horses are encouraged for plowing and aerating the soil instead of tractors. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) Perspective by Dave McIntyre In 1924, a group of farmers in ...