prescientific

British  

/ ˌpriːsaɪənˈtɪfɪk /

adjective

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

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Example Sentences

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.

From Slate

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

From Scientific American

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.

From Salon

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.

From Scientific American

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

From Slate