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Pseudoscience

Any body of knowledge that purports to be scientific or to be supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method.

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Any body of knowledge that purports to be scientific or to be supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method.

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Word	Definition
pseudoscientismnoun	A pseudoscientific approach or attitude.
sciosophynoun	False or pretended knowledge of science or natural phenomena.
nonsciencenoun	(usually uncountable) That which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field
quasisciencenoun	An area of inquiry that makes use of some of the methods of science, but which fails to be a true science.
quasi-sciencenoun	Alternative form of quasiscience. [An area of inquiry that makes use of some of the methods of science, but which fails to be a true science.]
junk sciencenoun	(derogatory) Assertions or methods that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific legitimacy.
protosciencenoun	An unscientific or pseudoscientific field of study which later becomes or spawns a science (e.g., astrology led to astronomy, alchemy led to chemistry, and, most generally, natural philosophy led to science).
pseudopsychologynoun	A false or superficial version of psychology.
pseudodisciplinenoun	An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.
scientolismnoun	(dated) pseudoscience
pseudometaphysicsnoun	A hypothesized explanation of the nature of reality that lacks the rigor of true metaphysics, especially one that involves a supersensual realm or phenomena which transcend the physical world.
cargo cult sciencenoun	Practices which have the appearance of being scientific, but do not actually follow the scientific method.
proto-sciencenoun	Alternative form of protoscience. [An unscientific or pseudoscientific field of study which later becomes or spawns a science (e.g., astrology led to astronomy, alchemy led to chemistry, and, most generally, natural philosophy led to science).]
antisciencenoun	The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
pseudosociologynoun	A false or superficial version of sociology.
parasciencenoun	Science that is non-mainstream or carried out in a subsidiary capacity.
nesciencenoun	The absence of knowledge, especially of orthodox beliefs.
sciencenoun	(countable) A particular discipline or branch of knowledge that is natural, measurable or consisting of systematic principles rather than intuition or technical skill.
soft science fictionnoun	(science fiction) A subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the nature of its speculative societies or that employs pseudoscience.
scientific methodnoun	(sciences) A method of discovering knowledge about the natural world based in making falsifiable predictions (hypotheses), testing them empirically, and developing theories that match known data from repeatable physical experimentation.