New Jersey legislators who say the nation’s leading authority on vaccines is straying from science and toward conspiracy theories want the state to use other scientific agencies when it comes to ...

Recently, we raised the question of how political journalists should deal with candidates for president who mouth the quackery of climate change denial. But the problem of how to write about ...

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted another fringe theory about autism – linking it to circumcision or to pain ...

The witness on the stand pauses before answering, then looks briefly up and to the right while giving a response. While listening to the next question, she places a finger over her lips, angles her ...

When I was a kid, I liked this poem by Jean Little from her collection, Hey World, Here I Am!: Our History teacher says, "Be proud you're Canadians."My father says, "You can be proud you're Jewish."My ...

When a few bad scientists have caused years of setbacks with faulty data on things like global warming and vaccines, it’s easy to demonize “incorrect” science and bad hypotheses as bad for humanity.

Zac Efron doesn’t say much except “Dude” and “Wow” in his Netflix docu-series Down to Earth. It’s a mostly innocuous show. If you’re the type of person who’s into the actor’s buff, scruffy bro-dude ...

That U.S. House candidate Paul Nehlen is an anti-Semite is not surprising. That the Wisconsin Republican, trounced by House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2016, was outed by puffing the retired psychologist ...

In this crazy era of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and people who think giants built Ohio’s mounds, appreciating the difference between actual facts and “alternative facts” has never been more ...

Craig Foster doesn’t mean to step on Bigfoot’s mythical toes but, in a world of instant information and dangerous data, he thinks it’s important to develop skills that allow you to determine fact from ...

Whole Foods is an American-founded “natural” grocery store, specializing in wholesome and organic foods, that has now expanded into Canada and the UK. It also does not purvey foods made from ...