I've posted previously about teaching your kids to be skeptical and demand evidence to claims. A claim without evidence is pseudoscience. I pointed readers to several podcasts that regularly focus on skeptics and skepticism.
Be Skeptical
Be Skeptical II
Here's another great source for you:
Skeptic Magazine
Skeptic Magazine is a great source on skepticism covering a wide range of science topics. An absolutely excellent magazine. It's published quarterly, so you're not overwhelmed with too much reading. The other cool thing about Skeptic Magazine is that it has a Junior section at the end of every issue. It's not written for young kids, but if your child is in middle school or high school, the Junior section is excellent. For example, the Junior section of the last issue focused on Velikovsky, a very smart man who believed that biblical events can be explained by several close encounters by Venus. The article uses science to explain why this isn't possible, written at a level for middle/high school students to clearly follow.
Check it out!
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