pseudoscientific
adjEtymology From pseudoscience + -ific, by analogy with scientific, equivalent to pseudo- + scientific.
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Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.
- […] another example of the desire to control deviant lifestyles: the preparation by the FBI of pseudoscientific "profiles" that purport to describe the murderers.1983 August 13, Mark McHarry, “FBI”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 4:
- Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific, fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans.1996, Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology:
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- Some pseudoscientific theories explain what nonbelievers cannot even observe, for example, orgone energy.2003, Robert Todd Carroll, The skeptic's dictionary:
- Don’t let manipulative state legislators misrepresent science and fearmonger you into giving them money. At the very least, don’t let them continue with their false pseudoscientific assertions. Pressure them to do their jobs and introduce real evidence-based legislation – like the Equality Act – that will improve lives.2021 June 24, Jack Turban and Jules Gill-Peterson, “Attacks on trans people are also attacks on science itself”, in CNN:
- The trolls did not match the old professional racists’ stuffy style, but they found use in their pseudoscientific graphics.2022 May 20, Elle Reeve, “How White ‘replacement theory’ evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- pseudoscientifical, pseudoscientifically, pseudoscientificalness, pseudoscientificness
- Related terms
- pseudomedical, pseudoprofessional, pseudoscience, pseudoscientism, pseudoscientist, pseudoscientistic