Antiscience

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 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.”"

Example

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"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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