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antiscience
antiscience
English
Adjective
antiscience (not comparable)
- Opposed to science and scientific progress.
- "Given the historical record and recent events, if there is anyone left who sincerely believes that a severely technology challenged John McSame serving out George Bush's third, batshit crazy, antiscience term would be a more reliable patron of legitimate science than Barack Obama, please, let me know." - DailyKos
Translations
opposed to science and scientific progress
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Noun
antiscience (countable and uncountable, plural antisciences)
- The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
- 2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century (page 95)
- 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.
- 2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century (page 95)
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Translations
the abuse or rejection of traditional science
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