A new report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that while Americans claim to love science and technology, most don’t understand it. Americans seem to blindly revere things “scientific” and also extend that reverence to pseudoscience and superstition, including belief in aliens, psychic powers, and haunted houses. The Oxford English Dictionary defines superstition as […]
Howard Fienberg
Howard Fienberg is senior analyst with the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a nonprofit nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving public understanding of scientific and social research.