pseudoscience

[soo-doh-sahy-uh ns] /ˌsu doʊˈsaɪ əns/
noun
1.
any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
Origin
1835-45; pseudo- + science
Related forms
pseudoscientific
[soo-doh-sahy-uh n-tif-ik] /ˌsu doʊˌsaɪ ənˈtɪf ɪk/ (Show IPA),
adjective
pseudoscientifically, adverb
pseudoscientist, noun
Examples from the web for pseudoscience
  • Speculative pseudoscience in a magazine focused on the dismal science.
  • The champions of empiricism show an unattractive hubris when they go after what they see as pseudoscience.
  • The first is excellent on the cosmology and physics interface and the second is great at debunking pseudoscience lunacy de jour.
  • Even health care workers are falling for the pseudoscience behind this myth.
  • Gray stood before a room of peers accusing him of pseudoscience.
  • There's more than a whiff in those words of their rank etymological origin in the pseudoscience of phrenology.
  • If the filmmakers' first folly was to turn to spiritualism, the second was to prop up spiritualism with pseudoscience.
  • The suggestion is that both are in the realm of pseudoscience.
  • The pseudoscience of astrology has made many people in the modern world relatively wealthy.
  • The biochemistry of beauty: the science and pseudoscience of beautiful skin.
British Dictionary definitions for pseudoscience

pseudoscience

/ˌsjuːdəʊˈsaɪəns/
noun
1.
a discipline or approach that pretends to be or has a close resemblance to science
Derived Forms
pseudoscientific, adjective
pseudoscience in Culture
pseudoscience [(sooh-doh-seye-uhns)]

A system of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific but that, in fact, are not. For example, astronomy is a science, but astrology is generally viewed as a pseudoscience.