Pseudoscientist

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Noun
  1. 1
    A practitioner of pseudoscience; a bogus or sham scientist. derogatory

    "Near-synonym: scientician (in its modern sense)"

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scientician

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"Near-synonym: scientician (in its modern sense)"

Etymology

From pseudo- + scientist.

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