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pseudoscience

/soo-doh-sahy-uhns/US // ˌsu doʊˈsaɪ əns //UK // (ˌsjuːdəʊˈsaɪəns) //

伪科学,假科学

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.

Examples

  • Many well-known examples of pseudoscience, he notes, were once mainstream scientific disciplines.

  • While people have many different justifications for not getting the shot, one particularly insidious bit of pseudoscience has surfaced.

  • But, true to form, it’s her anecdotes of pseudoscience in her own upbringing that linger.

  • Separating real science from pseudoscience is not a new problem.

  • The success of pseudoscience is not due to gullibility on the part of the public.

  • It combines pickup techniques supposedly inspired by evolutionary psychology with self-help pseudoscience.

  • From ‘Clueless’ to Clueless By Lizzie Crocker Diapers are ‘pseudoscience.’

  • If you want to write about spiritually-motivated pseudoscience in America, you head to the Creation Museum in Kentucky.

  • Still: a significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience.

  • They thus founded the pseudoscience denominated phrenology, which we now know has practically nothing to justify itself.

  • The subject in question is the old familiar one of false inductions or pseudoscience.