PSEUDOSCIENTIST

Etymology

Noun

pseudoscientist (plural pseudoscientists)

(pejorative) A practitioner of (a presumed) pseudoscience (i.e. "false scientist", "bogus scientist" "sham scientist", "inauthentic scientist").

Antonyms

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

Hypernyms

• scientist

Source: Wiktionary



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