pseudoscience
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All of this is fiction, wrapped in the same conspiratorial gauze as countless other viral pseudoscience clips—but the McGill video cops to it just 40 seconds in. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "A ‘Cancer Cure’ Video Skewered Bad Science—and Went Viral Itself," 10 July 2018 People have taken to Twitter to express their concern with Goop heading to another platform, alleging that the brand reports pseudoscience. — Maya Mcdowell, House Beautiful, "Everything We Know So Far About Gwyneth Paltrow’s 'Goop' Series On Netflix," 6 Feb. 2019 From day one the program is a ludicrous conflation of false religion and pseudoscience. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, "‘Boy Erased’ Review: Toxic Treatment," 1 Nov. 2018 The concept of white supremacy was legitimized during the 18th century through pseudoscience that sought to prove the inherent inferiority of black genetics. — Kim Reynolds, Teen Vogue, "How White People Have Reacted to Black Success Over Time in the United States," 30 July 2018 Using genetics to determine metabolic predispositions may sound like pseudoscience, but the research is there. — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, "The Future of Dieting Is Here—And it Has Nothing to do With Calorie Counting," 29 Oct. 2018 As Price writes: Cold fusion is dismissed as pseudoscience, the kind of thing that respectable scientists and science journalists simply don't talk about (unless to remind us of its disgrace). — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "Can Cold Fusion Come Back From the Dead?," 21 Dec. 2015 Ultimately, pseudoscience was used to justify the torture and murder of millions. — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, "Holocaust Museum shows how Nazi theories affected 12 survivors," 1 July 2018 Even a convincing pseudoscience parody would have its cover blown coming from an official McGill account. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "A ‘Cancer Cure’ Video Skewered Bad Science—and Went Viral Itself," 10 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pseudoscience.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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