Peer-reviewed research was routinely dismissed by the sceptics as 'junk science'.

In our haste to ditch junk science, we risk chucking out a useful box of medical tools as well.

Beware of social scientists bearing syndromes, he warns; they are usually peddling junk science.

So the headlines were based on junk science.

Paying universities not to produce junk science would be of wide benefit.