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US
/ˌsudoʊˈsaɪəns/
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[ UK /sˈuːdəʊsˌaɪəns/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːdəʊsˌaɪəns/ ]
NOUN
- an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
How To Use pseudoscience In A Sentence
- It also helps struggle against anti - science and pseudoscience during SC.
- Psychology, the discipline that has probably contributed most to the accurate assessment of ESP claims, is the field that is most closely associated with such pseudosciences in the public mind.
- But I think Popper may have wanted to find out criteria of demarcation between science and such pseudosciences as astrology and Freudian psychoanalysis.
- We hope to find ways to focus on some of the wonderful new achievements of science as a counterbalance in our pages to the popularly appealing but content-free and intellectually sterile fringe-sciences and pseudosciences.
- Licensure of practitioners of various pseudosciences is often treated as endorsement and as a gateway to greater privileges.
- We see that 'Shroud science' - like 'creation science' and other pseudosciences in the service of dogma - begins with the desired answer and works backward to the evidence.
- The word steatopygia comes from the vocabulary of an early pseudoscience which aimed to prove the superiority of the white race.
- For those who wish to combine magnet therapy with cupping and enjoy the benefits of two pseudosciences at once, the Magic Mengshi Cup is recommended.
- Biosphere 2 was ultimately ridiculed as a research debade, as exfravagant pseudoscience.
- FW: Pseudosciences like craniology and phrenology in the 18th and 19th century were once used as a basis for scientific racism that dealt with the inability of certain races to have intellect – thus the bizarre depiction of "happy darkies" that the Gone With the Wind group loved so well. The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Three: M.T. Anderson