pseudoscientific
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Adjective
pseudoscientific (comparative more pseudoscientific, superlative most pseudoscientific)
- Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience.
- 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.
- 1996, Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology
- In fiction, made to sound scientific through the use of technical terms and long words incorporating Greek and Latin prefixes and suffixes of the kind commonly used in scientific parlance.
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