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Three handy tools for separating pseudoscience from the real deal

Pseudoscientific ideas – and the hacks and hucksters who often benefit from them – are certainly nothing new. But in the age of AI slop and unregulated social media platforms, ideas dressed up in the language of science but lacking its methods and rigour have perhaps never been so ubiquitous. Defining what makes an enquiry scientific, and therefore........

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