The quest to tell science from pseudoscience

Michael Gordin in Boston Review: Where do you place the boundary between “science” and “pseudoscience”? The question is more than academic. The answers we give have consequences—in part because, as health policy scholar Timothy Caulfield wrote in Nature last April during the first wave of COVID-19, “tolerating pseudoscience can cause real harm.” We want to know which doctrines count as … Continue reading The quest to tell science from pseudoscience