How to Use pseudoscience in a Sentence

pseudoscience

noun
  • Some of the ideas share the same pseudoscience as Kennedy’s views on vaccines.
    — Keren Landman, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • So this is the sort of caliber of pseudoscience, and this is really echoed down through the years.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
  • But even accepting the premise of the pseudoscience, what sort of world would a cryogenic client wake up in.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • There were sure to be some who objected to Oz and his embrace of pseudoscience.
    — Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Even back then, people believed in the pseudoscience of magnets.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2017
  • These are often more pseudoscience than substance.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • This pseudoscience held that what someone saw just before death would be imprinted on their eye.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • Chemists in the 1700s sought to deem alchemy a pseudoscience.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 July 2024
  • Worries are that this borders on junk science or pseudoscience and creates false hopes.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • For others, the idea is pseudoscience and contrary to our concept of nature.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light; a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
  • There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
  • Yet pseudoscience seems like the least likely of the family’s problems now.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
  • With the internet awash in both sound science and pseudoscience, how can people know what to believe?
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The racial pseudoscience of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is far from dead today.
    — Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • These claims are rough approximations of the golden ratio at best and pseudoscience at worst.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
  • This idea, known as panspermia, was once ridiculed as pseudoscience, but is now firmly back in the scientific mainstream.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Overall, this was the most informative and non-pseudoscience-y episode of the entire series.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2020
  • More importantly, Yu doesn’t try to fill the current gaps in our knowledge with pseudoscience.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Despite these recent rigorous projects, concerns about pseudoscience in psychedelics research still loom large over the field.
    — Nora Bradford, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In any case, this group is collectively using science to fight back against the pseudoscience (like fad diets and quack cancer cures).
    — Cara Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The entire science of eugenics, all of the Nazi racial stuff, all of that is just absolute pseudoscience.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In his later bestsellers, Burioni widened his case against pseudoscience in Italy.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 2 Jan. 2020
  • From day one the program is a ludicrous conflation of false religion and pseudoscience.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Much of that work, done by staff and outside scientists, involves screening the submissions to weed out pseudoscience and opinion pieces.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The large carbon polluters have spent between one [billion and] two billion dollars putting out pseudoscience and creating false doubts.
    — Annie Sneed, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Such a feat is made much harder by the lingering stigma that UFO research is pseudoscience.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Much of the cultural legacy of Sigmund Freud is pure mythology, based on pseudoscience and fraud.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 16 June 2019

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