pseudoscientific
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Etymology edit
pseudoscience + -ific, by analogy with scientific
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pseudoscientific (comparative more pseudoscientific, superlative most pseudoscientific)
- Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.
- 1983 August 13, Mark McHarry, “FBI”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 4:
- […] another example of the desire to control deviant lifestyles: the preparation by the FBI of pseudoscientific "profiles" that purport to describe the murderers.
- 1996, Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology:
- Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific, fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans.
- 2003, Robert Todd Carroll, The skeptic's dictionary:
- Some pseudoscientific theories explain what nonbelievers cannot even observe, for example, orgone energy.
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of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience
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