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antiscience

adj

Etymology

From anti- + science.

  1. derived from scientia
  2. derived from science
  3. inherited from science
  4. formed as antiscience — “anti- + science”

Definitions

  1. Opposed to science and scientific progress.

    • “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.

  2. The abuse or rejection of traditional science

    The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antiscience. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA