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Pseudoscience vs Antiscience - What's the difference?

pseudoscience | antiscience |

As nouns the difference between pseudoscience and antiscience

is that pseudoscience is any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method while antiscience is the abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.

As an adjective antiscience is

opposed to science and scientific progress.

pseudoscience

English

(wikipedia pseudoscience)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any body of knowledge purported to be scientific or supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, pseudoscientific , pseudoscientifically , pseudoscientist}}

    See also

    * parascience

    antiscience

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • 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

    Noun

  • 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.

    See also

    * pseudoscience