Clemson project evaluates claims of health cures

A creative inquiry class at Clemson University has as a main goal helping students and the public to tell the difference between science and pseudoscience.  That way, health claims carried on social media can be better evaluated.  Elliott Ennis, senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, created the class six years ago.  Since then, it has been his passion.  The claims of wonder drugs, “alternative care” options and easy cures have people investing their time and money into products and solutions that often are based on misinformation, are supported by research that is later disproved or have no scientific basis at all.