Why People Believe in Pseudoscience Pseudoscience provides something that real science often doesn’t: comfort. Science is often perceived as cold and indifferent. It seems strange to many people, and ...

Pseudoscience is a system of explanations, methods, and assumptions that pose as science but don’t follow core scientific principles like testability and falsifiability. Pseudoscience is different ...

I teach at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and this semester I’m teaching a course called “Scientific, Pseudoscientific, and Medical Reasoning” (SPMR). At King’s, all students are ...

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Scientific arguments against pseudoscience are often dismissed with a familiar claim: scientists reject paranormal ideas simply because they are not profitable for them. This argument sounds ...