Antiscience
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded. countable, uncountable
"Genealogies are antisciences. Of course, genealogy is not an unproblematic enterprise, since it is a struggle against forms of power that are associated with certain forms of (scientific) knowledge."
- 1 Opposed to science and scientific progress. not-comparable
"Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”"
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More examples"Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”"
Etymology
From anti- + science.
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