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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

Kennedy is an overt anti-vaccination agitator, among his many other pet pseudoscientific positions.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 2024

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

Fraudulent Medical Treatments Medicine is a fertile area for pseudoscientific claims for a simple reason.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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