pseudo-scientific
Examples
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.
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
By this means, Popper asserted, a theory which was initially genuinely scientific degenerated into pseudo-scientific dogma."
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.
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.