Linguistic prescriptivism is unscientific, and is criticized as such by those who are actual linguists.
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Unscientific
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nonscientific reasoningpre scientific erapseudoscientificscientific worldviewsloppysuperstitioussuperstitious thinkersuperstitious thinkingunprovenunverified
not followingparalogicalreasonlessself-annullingself-contradictoryself-refutingsenselessunauthenticunconnectedunphilosophicalunreasonablewithout reasonwithout rhyme or reason
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5 entriescareless inquirymythic beliefpseudoscientific claimsloppy experimentunverified data
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6 entriesunscientific argumentunscientific beliefunscientific claimunscientific methodunscientific reasoningunscientific study
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To claim sex is binary requires ignoring intersex people, which is unscientific and purely ideological.
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I.P. Pavlov proved the absolutely unscientific nature of the arguments of bourgeois physiologists and psychologists about the "soul" as an intangible carrier of mental phenomena.
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The study was deemed unscientific.
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