Antiscience vs Antiscientific - What's the difference?
antiscience | antiscientific |
Opposed to science and scientific progress.
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)
Of or pertaining to antiscience
Contrary to the tenets of the scientific method
As adjectives the difference between antiscience and antiscientific
is that antiscience is opposed to science and scientific progress while antiscientific is of or pertaining to antiscience.As a noun antiscience
is the abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.antiscience
English
Adjective
(-)- "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
Noun
- 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.