How to Use pseudoscience in a Sentence

pseudoscience

noun
Definition of pseudosciencenext
  • So this is the sort of caliber of pseudoscience, and this is really echoed down through the years.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • But even accepting the premise of the pseudoscience, what sort of world would a cryogenic client wake up in.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light; a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Goop has been pushing pseudoscience for almost a decade now.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 2 June 2021
  • Even back then, people believed in the pseudoscience of magnets.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Defendants have dropped the n-word, admired Adolf Hitler, joked about the Holocaust and trafficked in racist pseudoscience.
    — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Defendants have dropped the n-word, admired Adolf Hitler, joked about the Holocaust, and trafficked in racist pseudoscience.
    — Ellie Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The racial pseudoscience of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is far from dead today.
    — Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The entire science of eugenics, all of the Nazi racial stuff, all of that is just absolute pseudoscience.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
  • With the internet awash in both sound science and pseudoscience, how can people know what to believe?
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
  • For decades, academic researchers have dismissed the study of UFOs as pseudoscience.
    — Mj Banias, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2020
  • Overall, this was the most informative and non-pseudoscience-y episode of the entire series.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Such a feat is made much harder by the lingering stigma that UFO research is pseudoscience.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2022
  • More importantly, Yu doesn’t try to fill the current gaps in our knowledge with pseudoscience.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Sobol and Duncan teamed against Perez, a vicious despot with deep beliefs in racial pseudoscience, to demand Duncan’s rights be upheld and not take a plea deal.
    — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
  • Van Gogh had to get away from Seurat’s and Signac’s dogma not just to find his own voice but also to liberate color from the clutches of pseudoscience.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Much of the cultural legacy of Sigmund Freud is pure mythology, based on pseudoscience and fraud.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 16 June 2019
  • Their techniques have long since been relegated to the realm of pseudoscience, alongside many of their assumptions about the world, but the alchemists may have been on to something.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This idea, known as panspermia, was once ridiculed as pseudoscience, but is now firmly back in the scientific mainstream.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In any case, this group is collectively using science to fight back against the pseudoscience (like fad diets and quack cancer cures).
    — Cara Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • These claims are rough approximations of the golden ratio at best and pseudoscience at worst.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
  • So, Van Doorne says, it was abandoned again, dismissed as pseudoscience and relegated to a folksy practice.
    — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Much of that work, done by staff and outside scientists, involves screening the submissions to weed out pseudoscience and opinion pieces.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Its detractors accused Paltrow of peddling pseudoscience, which the Iron Man actress took in her stride.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • In his later bestsellers, Burioni widened his case against pseudoscience in Italy.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Yes, almost like telekinesis, but without the pseudoscience.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • For years, manifesting has long been confined to the same New Age territory as astrology, visions of angels, and reincarnation, full of pseudoscience and platitudes.
    — Dr. James R. Doty, TIME, 7 May 2024
  • The government has excised textbook chapters on India’s past Muslim rulers and silenced researchers who questioned pseudoscience being promoted by right-wing officials.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024

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