anti-science

noun

an·​ti-sci·​ence ˌan-tē-ˈsī-ən(t)s 

ˌan-tī-

variants or less commonly antiscience

: a set or system of attitudes and beliefs that are opposed to or reject science and scientific methods and principles

And for a show even remotely about news—as well as a groundbreaking newswoman like Walters—to legitimize McCarthy's dangerous antiscience … is irresponsible and shameful.

—James Poniewozik

anti-science adjective

or less commonly antiscience

an anti-science bias

… many currents of irrational, anti-science, anti-intellectual feelings that arise partly from fears and partly from reaction to errors or arrogance among scientists.

—Edmund Fuller

anti-scientific adjective

or less commonly antiscientific

ˌan-tē-ˌsī-ən-ˈti-fik 

ˌan-tī-

anti-scientific attitudes

Examples of anti-science in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Don Thomas, a 77-year-old Saratoga resident, came out to protest the GOP’s anti-science platform. —Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 7 May 2025

Martin’s letters to medical journals appear intended to promote the anti-science, anti-vaccine policies of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s wildly unfit health secretary. —Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2025

The budget is produced by the White House Office of Management and Budget, which is overseen by Russell Vought, who has long made his anti-science budgeting priorities clear through his Center for Renewing America. —Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025

The Trump administration has also brought in several individuals who have long held anti-science views. —Jordan Miller, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2025

The reported accession of Geier isn’t the only indication of how the department, whose programs were until recently celebrated as the gold standard of government science, has become a haven of a repugnant anti-science mythmaking and a threat to public health. —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025

The anti-science threat only intensified when Donald Trump appointed anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services. —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025

Other arguments are based on information contained in the proceedings of a conference organized by an anti-science think tank. —John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025

Resistance to anti-science appointees to government positions to prevent the implementation of regressive public health measures. —Powel H. Kazanjian, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above