pseudoscience
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- noun
- /ˈsuːdoʊˌsaɪəns/
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seudociencia
- The documentary exposed various practices that are categorized as pseudoscience despite their claims to be factual.
- science and pseudoscience
So while I don't think IIT is pseudoscience, I think it's just wrong.
- So while I don't think IIT is pseudoscience, I think it's just wrong.
- Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience is going to be a long and arduous process.
- Why now are you backing this pseudoscience when you're telling us that's not how things work?
- The group is called Challenging Pseudoscience.
- Organization Y claims this which is pseudoscience.
- It's been accused as untestable pseudoscience, and yet it was recently tested against a competing theory.
- In the United States today, cold fusion is a term synonymous with scientific pipe dreams, hyped up failures, and pseudoscience.
- It could be pseudoscience, it could be politics, it could be self improvement, it could be some kind of religious belief.
- He's actually attacking those pseudosciences in in his his discussion.
Examples
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Undoing the influence of such pseudoscience is going to be a long and arduous process.
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A recent Gallup poll reports widespread and increasingly prevalent belief in pseudoscience.
Academic text (2007) -
But what we call pseudoscience today might once have been science.
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Every science has its corresponding pseudoscience.
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How are you preparing students to debunk pseudoscience and to really serve the public?
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After the tragedies of Nazi Germany, there was a rush to dismiss racial theory as pseudoscience.
Academic text (2018) -
In seeking to deal with dilemmas still unresolved by science, some people turn to pseudoscience and check their daily horoscopes.
Academic text (1990) -
The racial conception of Mexicans through the pseudoscience of eugenics depended precisely on the problem of racial mixture they embodied.
Academic text (2017) -
Many people confuse astrology with pseudoscience because it lacks empirical support.
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Schools should teach students to identify pseudoscience in health claims to protect their well-being.
Synonyms
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False or weak claims presented as based on careful study to mislead people
A method that looks scientific but has no real evidence
False or not proven ideas that claim to explain how the world works
Antonyms
- Specialized
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A tested explanation of how nature works, supported by many experiments and facts
How Scientific
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pseudoscience is made of pseudo- meaning 'false' and science meaning 'study' or 'knowledge'. So the word names ideas that pretend to be scientific but are not based on real evidence.