pseudoscientistn.
/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˈsʌɪəntɪst/, U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈsaɪən(t)əst/ A proponent or practitioner of pseudoscience; a person who mistakenly or falsely claims to be a scientist.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > false or pretended science > practitioner of
pseudoscientist1872
1872 Scribner's Monthly July 352/2 The truth is that men refuse to come under the classifications of the pseudo-scientists.
1902 A. 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.
1928 R. 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.
1960 J. S. Hanrahan & D. Bushnell Space Biol. vii. 109 Not only fiction-writers but also some pseudo-scientists have dabbled in anti-gravity.
1991 C. Barker Imajica (1992) 90 Cults..had been infiltrated and discovered to be groups of pseudoscientists exchanging arcane theories in a language no two of them agreed upon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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