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pseudoscientific

American  
[soo-doh-sahy-uhn-tif-ik] / ˌsu doʊˌsaɪ ənˈtɪf ɪk /

adjective

  1. relating to or being a form of pseudoscience.


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The most popular health influencers feed the social media beast, but Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil are the OGs when it comes to spreading pseudoscientific information.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

The remains are thought to have been acquired by researchers to carry out pseudoscientific studies.

From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2023

And his promoting of pseudoscientific ideas has furthered the growing mistrust of science, of knowledge, of rationality, of evidence, and of facts themselves.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2023

Mostly, in the public eye, Biosphere 2 is considered a failure, and its experimentation is seen as only pseudoscientific.

From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2023

His job was to prove that Dreyfus’s handwriting matched the incriminating note, and he took the stand with a bewildering display of charts and pseudoscientific diagrams.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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