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prescientific

/ ˌpriːsaɪənˈtɪfɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the period before the development of modern science and its methods

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It’s that it promises to drag us back to a prescientific world, where truth depends on who is in charge and evidence becomes whatever supports the predetermined conclusion.

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So does the persistence of religion, our prescientific panacea for the human condition.

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So did the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Scott Olesen and Eric Alm in 2016, calling the idea of balance in the microbiome “a holdover from prescientific thought,” akin to balancing the humors.

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But Kandel’s Freudian affinity was formed in his prescientific Viennese youth, and his brilliant work on the molecular basis of memory owed nothing to psychoanalysis.

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If we were a prescientific society, we would assume that polio is a disease caused by human disagreements and cured by public-spiritedness.

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