pseudoscientist

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English

Alternative forms

• pseudo-scientist
• pseudo scientist

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ scientist

Noun

pseudoscientist (plural pseudoscientists)

1. A practitioner of (a presumed) pseudoscience (i.e. "false scientist", "bogus scientist" "sham scientist", "inauthentic scientist").
   • 1972, Michael Martin, Concepts of Science Education: A Philosophical Analysis

     The pseudoscientist will claim that these theories are well supported by the evidence...

Antonyms

• scientist (i.e. "true scientist", "genuine scientist", "real scientist", "authentic scientist"; "alethoscientist", "aletho-scientist"; cf. ἀληθής (alēthḗs), (ψευδής (pseudḗs)), ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia), Aletheia, alethic, aletho-, alethiology, alethology)

Hypernyms

• scientist

Derived terms

• pseudoscientistic

Related terms

• pseudoscience
• pseudo-science
• pseudo-scientific
• pseudoscientific
• pseudoscientifical
• pseudo-scientifical
• pseudoscientifically
• pseudo-scientifically
• pseudo-scientificalness
• pseudoscientificalness
• pseudo-scientificness
• pseudoscientificness
• pseudoscientism
• pseudo-scientism
• science
• scientific
• scientifical
• scientifically
• scientism
• scientistic
• scientistical
• scientistically

 

Translations

practitioner of pseudoscience or a pseudoscience

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偽科學家, 伪科学家 (wěikēxuéjiā)

• Finnish: pseudotieteilijä

• French: pseudo-scientifique (fr) m or f, pseudoscientifique (fr) m or f
• German: Pseudowissenschaftler m, Pseudowissenschaftlerin f, Pseudowissenschafter m (Austrian), Pseudowissenschafterin f (Austrian), Afterwissenschaftler m, Afterwissenschaftlerin f, Scheinwissenschaftler m, Scheinwissenschaftlerin f