pseudoscientist

English

Alternative forms

pseudo-scientist
pseudo scientist

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ scientist

Noun

pseudoscientist (plural pseudoscientists)

A practitioner of (a presumed) pseudoscience (i.e. "false scientist", "bogus scientist" "sham scientist", "inauthentic scientist").
- 1972, Michael Martin, Concepts of Science Education: A Philosophical Analysis
  The pseudoscientist will claim that these theories are well supported by the evidence...

Antonyms

scientist (i.e. "true scientist", "genuine scientist", "real scientist", "authentic scientist"; "alethoscientist", "aletho-scientist"; cf. ἀληθής (alēthḗs), (ψευδής (pseudḗs)), ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia), Aletheia, alethic, aletho-, alethiology, alethology)

Hypernyms

scientist

Derived terms

pseudoscientistic

Related terms

Terms related to pseudoscientist

pseudoscience
pseudo-science
pseudo-scientific
pseudoscientific
pseudoscientifical
pseudo-scientifical
pseudoscientifically
pseudo-scientifically

pseudo-scientificalness
pseudoscientificalness
pseudo-scientificness
pseudoscientificness
pseudoscientism
pseudo-scientism
science

Translations

practitioner of pseudoscience or a pseudoscience

Chinese:
Mandarin: 偽科學家, 伪科学家 (wěikēxuéjiā)

Finnish: pseudotieteilijä
German: Pseudowissenschaftler m, Pseudowissenschaftlerin f, Pseudowissenschafter m (Austrian), Pseudowissenschafterin f (Austrian), Afterwissenschaftler m, Afterwissenschaftlerin f, Scheinwissenschaftler m, Scheinwissenschaftlerin f

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