Have you ever taken a personality test seriously? Or maybe you’ve wondered if you could freeze yourself in liquid nitrogen to help revitalize your body postmortem? Human tendencies to believe in such ...

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal ...

In titling his latest solo show "Drapetomania," longtime Marsh performer Wayne Harris seeks not just to skewer Cartwright's ...