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pseudo-scientific

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A man must be either conscientiously scientific in his approach or frankly speculative. What he must not do is present his speculative untested ideas in a manner and style of dogmatic certainty that they are not entitled to claim. This is being pseudo-scientific. J. B. Priestley

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Martin Gardner

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. James Mark Baldwin

By this means, Popper asserted, a theory which was initially genuinely scientific degenerated into pseudo-scientific dogma." Source: Internet

The snake oil peddler became a stock character in Western movies : a traveling "doctor" with dubious credentials, selling fake medicines with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence. Source: Internet

He describes political, social, and pseudo-scientific efforts to separate Jews from "civil" society and notes that antisemitism was part of a larger attempt to differentiate status based on racial background. Source: Internet

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