pseudoscientific

[soo-doh-sahy-uhn-tif-ik]

adjective

1. relating to or being a form of pseudoscience.

Example Sentences

Holmes’ words were a quintessential expression of “eugenics,” a pseudoscientific notion that social problems can be alleviated by focusing on heredity, and sequestering, forcibly sterilizing or even murdering those whose genetic heritage jeopardizes civilization.

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Almost 40 years before their use in the Holocaust, concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill people in what was then called South West Africa.

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Nowadays, any pseudoscientific tinctures or broths are about as good as you can expect from the U.S. health care system.

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And I call on the President to immediately issue this executive order—to stamp out this destructive, divisive, pseudoscientific ideology.

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Claiming this will boost America’s business interests, Trump has also justified his agenda largely by promoting the pseudoscientific claim that human-caused climate change is a “hoax.”

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