LibGuides: Pseudoscience websites: Home

This guide links to a variety of sources that attempt to address urban legends, misinformation about scientific topics, etc.

Bad Astronomy
A blog on scientific controversies.
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
"The mission of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims."
The Journal of Irreproducible Results
“…offers spoofs, parodies, whimsies, burlesques, lampoons, and satires.”
The Onion
"...a satirical weekly publication."
QuackWatch
“…Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions”
Retraction
Includes a select list of academic retractions.
Retraction Watch
Documents and analyzes research papers withdrawn from scientific journals.
The Science Bit: Pseudoscience
"Public struggles with science, scientists, and scientific research."
Skeptic website
"Examining extraordinary claims and promoting science."
Snopes.com
Well-known fact-checking site.

Pseudoscience websites