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ˈpseudo-science
Also pseudoscience.
[f. pseudo- + science.]
A pretended or spurious science; a collection of related beliefs about the world mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method or as having the status that scientific truths now have.
1844Northern Jrnl. Med. I. 387 That opposite kind of innovation which pronounces what had been before recognised as a branch of science, to have been a pseudo⁓science, composed merely of so-called facts, connected together by misapprehensions under the disguise of principles. 1859Saxe Poems, Progress 190 The march of Progress let the Muse explore In pseudo⁓science and empiric lore. 1911G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma p. xcii, The pseudo science of the commercial general practitioner, who foolishly clamors for the prosecution..of the Christian Scientists when their patients die. 1911J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 113 Magic as a pseudo-science. 1912J. J. Walsh Psychotherapy I. v. 38 Astrology, is the typical example of pseudo-science in medicine. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods vi. 134 These pseudo-sciences were held in higher honour by the Babylonians themselves than the more utilitarian branches of knowledge. 1937Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXVII. 246 We may..consider..psychoanalytical theory as illustrative of the manner in which various influences combine to produce what we may call pseudo⁓science. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation iii. 47 Theology has been, as my grandfather T. H. Huxley said, only a pseudo-science. 1960Guardian 9 Dec. 5/3 The pseudo-science of the academic pollster. 1977A. Giddens Stud. in Social & Polit. Theory i. 58 His [sc. K. Popper's] endeavour to establish clear criteria of demarcation between science and pseudo-science shares much of the same impetus as the concern of the logical positivists to free science from mystifying, empty word⁓play.
Hence pseudo-scienˈtific a., ˈpseudo-scientist.
1873Q. Rev. CXXXV. 192 The pseudo-scientific teachers of what has..been termed..the Agnostic Philosophy. 1898[see collective a. (n.) A. 2 d]. 1902A. Machen Hieroglyphics v. 126 The only people who have always a plain answer to a plain question are the pseudo-scientists..who think that one can solve the enigma of the universe with a box of chemicals. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 472/1 This was the pseudo-scientific note of the new anti-Semitism, the theory which differentiated it from the old religious Jew-hatred. 1914R. A. S. Macalister Philistines ii. 44 The pseudo-scientific hypothesis that Samson (like Achilles, Heracles, Max Müller, Gladstone, and other demonstrated characters of mythology) was a solar myth. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 348/1 Mentality... Some like it because it is longer than mind;..and some because it has a pseudo-scientific sound about it that may impress the reader. 1928R. Macaulay Keeping up Appearances xix. 213 The pseudo-scientists..like Freud, poor old man, who's hypnotised himself with observing diseased eroto-maniacs and thinking them normal. 1960Hanrahan & Bushnell Space Biol. vii. 109 Not only fiction-writers but also some pseudo-scientists have dabbled in anti-gravity. 1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 164 The spurious rigour of some pseudo-scientific ‘measurements’ of the ‘efficiency’ of language. 1973C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) viii. 59 An enormous interest is apparent in a range of pseudo-scientific or borderline-scientific topics—astrology, scientology, the study of unidentified flying objects, [etc.]. 1975Times 26 Sept. 19 (heading) Lord Zuckerman deplores pseudo-scientists. |