antiscience
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8.5
- noun
- /ˌæntiˈsaɪəns/
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anticiencia
- They are going to insist that religious beliefs are antirational, antiscience and antisocial.
- antiscience brigade
Examples
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When one considers today's creationist and New Age movements, one can conclude that Lovecraft's prediction of a new dark age of antiscience superstition is well on its way to fulfillment.
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Many experts warn that the growing antiscience sentiment can lead to dangerous policies that disregard established facts.
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I note an increase in antiscience awareness and its negative impact on the practice of medicine.
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Because really, how else would antiscience candidates make it into office?
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We must make no mistake about what it will take to show up the antiscience Luddites for what they are and to defeat them.
Academic text (1995) -
Among the background beliefs shared by the antiscience brigades, we may pick out one general belief and seven particular ones.
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Also, evolution is science, and antievolution is antiscience.
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Often they cloak their antiscience with the mantle of skepticism.
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It's a veritable cornucopia of antiscience fallacies aimed at medical science.
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The sole remedy at our disposal is to quarantine the antiscience brigades and inoculate the rest of the population against them.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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8.2
Refusing to accept clear facts or evidence from science and history
How Pro-Science
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Antiscience joins anti- ('against') and science ('knowledge'), so as a noun it names an attitude or movement that rejects or opposes science and scientific consensus.