Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to encourage ...

It might seem like conspiracy theories are everywhere today, and that people are more inclined to believe them than in the past. But that isn’t true, says Joseph Uscinski, a political science ...

Much of the psychological research on conspiracy theories to date has focused on trying to explain why people believe them. But unlike the idiosyncratic and unshared nature of delusional thinking that ...

Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution. iStock / Getty Images Plus The approach is not limited to evolution.