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The Truth Behind Pseudoscience: Ghost hunting

(Jan. 5, 2022) Each year, the graduate students of UCSC’s Science Communication Program research a different topic for the first GT issue of the new year. This year, with so much abuse and misuse of science floating around, especially on social media, we decided to take on the topic of pseudoscience. It’s a wildly varied list of subjects, and whether they’re fun and seemingly harmless, have implications for believers’ pocketbooks, or are the basis for sinister conspiracy theories, it’s edifying to know their scientific basis — or lack of one — and to consider why their popularity has endured.

(Republished in Metro Silicon Valley.)