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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This pseudoscience held that what someone saw just before death would be imprinted on their eye.
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Thinking 4 categories of pseudoscience — and how to talk to people who believe in them
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
—Big Think, 24 June 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, 1 June 2024
But Du Bois was an exception in this regard: during his lifetime, this magazine published very few Black voices—and its founding involved acquiring an existing journal that had occasionally trafficked in the racist pseudoscience that shaped the early years of international relations theory.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Thinking 4 categories of pseudoscience — and how to talk to people who believe in them
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
—Big Think, 24 June 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, 1 June 2024
But Du Bois was an exception in this regard: during his lifetime, this magazine published very few Black voices—and its founding involved acquiring an existing journal that had occasionally trafficked in the racist pseudoscience that shaped the early years of international relations theory.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
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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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