Children and adolescents -- even adults for that matter -- may report with all sincerity that they had been sexually abused in the past or witnessed a murder or other crimes. But sometimes the person, ...

If the policy amendment passes, "hate speech, false science, and false historical claims” would be allowed in educational materials — but books would still be banned for containing drug use, ...

It's the debut of the new character False Science Ben as Ben shoots from the hip in a conversation about Texas earthquakes and fracking. Your browser does not support ...

Ancient aliens. Astrology. Flat-Earth and UFO conspiracies. These are examples of pseudoscience, a system of beliefs that masquerades as true science but is far from it. To understand how ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The West Virginia State Board of Education (SBOE) has drawn the ire of science ...

Former Baltimore police sergeant James A. Kulbicki has served a dozen years in a Maryland prison for the murder of his girlfriend. He was convicted based on the testimony of an FBI forensice expert, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. One of the greatest failures of data science has been the way in which ...