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The article focuses on the bipartisan tendency to selectively trust scientific claims, highlighting that both Democrats and Republicans exhibit skepticism towards certain scientific findings. Topics include the contrasting views on climate change and COVID-19 vaccination between the parties, differing acceptance of nuclear power and genetically modified foods, and experimental evidence illustrating how partisanship influences the perception of scientific credibility.

The article focuses on teaching students how to build resilience against misinformation through inoculation theory. Topics include techniques to recognize and resist misinformation such as logical fallacies and rhetorical strategies, the importance of combining active and technique-based inoculation in classroom activities, and examples of exercises such as creating pseudoscientific advertisements.

The article focuses on distinguishing between pseudoscientific beliefs and genuine scientific disciplines, highlighting examples such as homeopathy and astrology as pseudosciences while contrasting them with accepted sciences like chemistry and physics. Philosophers specializing in the demarcation problem generally agree on identifying pseudosciences based on their lack of empirical support and adherence to unscientific principles.

The article discusses that the entire field of genetics became his primary target; an interpretation of Marxist doctrine suggested human characteristics could themselves be changed by living under communism. It mentions that acquired improvements would be inherited by subsequent generations, creating a heroic "new Soviet man"; and this was a far more politically tractable belief than the alternative, and Lysenko thus rejected Darwinism itself as anticommunist.

The author discusses the need for skeptics to be more comfortable with criticism of institutions to counter antiscience movements.

The article reports on whether postmodernists and social constructivists have contributed to the promotion of pseudoscience and science denial.

The article offers information on CSICon 2019, the annual conference on science and skepticism hosted by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), held at Flamingo Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada from October 16-20, 2019.

The article focuses on anti-evolutionism as a quintessential and particularly pernicious pseudoscience. Topics include the historical waves of creationism in United states, the use of phylogenetic reconstruction techniques to track anti-evolutionist tactics and the strategies employed by the Discovery Institute.

An interview with the noted geophysicist and climatologist Michael Mann is presented who discusses climate wars, global warming due to man, and climate change deniers. The article also discusses the iconic Hockey Stick curve he published with his coauthors, the book "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" he authored himself, and his collaborative work with the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles.

The article presents an evidence-based response to science denial considering the prevailing scientific consensus surrounding climate change. Topics discussed include the acceptance of human-caused global warming and the misinformation campaign that affects public perception of the consensus among climate scientists. The application of inoculation theory, which involves the public being exposed to a "weak side" of the misinformation, is then mentioned.

The article focuses on putative temperature plateau, slowing of the rise of temperature. It discusses the issue of divergence of opinion between scientists and their critics concerning the reality and significance of the putative plateau. It demonstrates the difference in opinions related acceleration of global warming.

The article discusses initiatives to improve the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) because of presence of information bias and mentions that library catalogs lack subject heading and classification such as no correct representation of climate change denialism.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "A 'Taking Back Skepticism' Campaign and Online Course" by John Cook, which appeared in the July/August 2015 issue.

The article discusses an online course and campaign related to skepticism associated with the anti-science rhetoric of climate science denial. It mentions the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) Making Sense of Climate Science Denial by the University of Queensland and MOOC provider EdX. It adds the "Taking Back Skepticism" campaign that highlights the values of skepticism and distinguishes them from science denial.