antiscience
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a word derived from
science.
sciencenouna branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.
Example Sentences
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“The good news is that there is still time to oppose the antiscience siege,” Hotez and Mann write.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
Your book discusses how the modern antiscience movement grew out of false claims in the late 1990s that vaccines cause autism, right?
From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2023
And it’s no exaggeration to say it helped launch my career as a science communicator and antiscience debunker.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023
“This is an antiscience attack and, unfortunately, we’re the target,” he says.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 16, 2021
Perhaps it was the old Jansenist antiscience creed that was building up in him, but for whatever the reason, Pascal’s newfound devotion led him to abandon mathematics and science altogether.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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