pseudoscience
noun
pseu·do·sci·ence
ˌsü-dō-ˈsī-ən(t)s 
: a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific
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Some scientists caution against ascribing the golden ratio or spiral too ubiquitously, out of fear of perpetuating false myths with poorly sampled studies or pseudoscience.
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Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
My liberal, upper-middle-class urban milieu likes to pride itself on trusting the science, but many of us are in thrall to a toxic ideology whose legitimate insights are braided with myth and pseudoscience.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
Chemists in the 1700s sought to deem alchemy a pseudoscience.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 July 2024
Trump’s plan to launch a massive deportation project nationwide—the first plank in the platform approved at his party’s convention—draws on the same flawed historical rationales and pseudoscience that built support for concentration camps worldwide in the 20th century.
—Andrea Pitzer, Scientific American, 23 July 2024
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Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
My liberal, upper-middle-class urban milieu likes to pride itself on trusting the science, but many of us are in thrall to a toxic ideology whose legitimate insights are braided with myth and pseudoscience.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2024
Chemists in the 1700s sought to deem alchemy a pseudoscience.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 July 2024
Trump’s plan to launch a massive deportation project nationwide—the first plank in the platform approved at his party’s convention—draws on the same flawed historical rationales and pseudoscience that built support for concentration camps worldwide in the 20th century.
—Andrea Pitzer, Scientific American, 23 July 2024
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pseudoscience
noun
pseu·do·sci·ence
ˌsüd-ō-ˈsī-ən(t)s
: a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific
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