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Pseudoscientific

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.

    "[…] another example of the desire to control deviant lifestyles: the preparation by the FBI of pseudoscientific "profiles" that purport to describe the murderers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific wordnet

Etymology

From pseudoscience + -ific, by analogy with scientific, equivalent to pseudo- + scientific.

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