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n. - An activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions.

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  • Otherwise, the pejorative nature of the term pseudoscience seems a little harsh.
  • This property, however, appears to have become attractive in pseudoscience circles.
  • A third anti-intellectual trend is the growth in pseudoscience, especially in the form of “alternative medicine.”
  • I think that pseudoscience is nonsense, and I have been looking for a single person who takes a scientific approach to the notion of ID.
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