How to Use pseudoscience in a Sentence

pseudoscience

noun

• Chemists in the 1700s sought to deem alchemy a pseudoscience.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 July 2024
• 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, 6 Feb. 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, 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, 1 June 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
• This pseudoscience held that what someone saw just before death would be imprinted on their eye.
  — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024