antiscience
The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
Adjective
- Opposed to science and scientific progress.
- Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally...
- “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA. - 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project...
Synonyms: antiscientific
Antonyms: proscience proscientific
Coordinate Terms: anti-intellectual antieducation pseudoscientific nonscientific unscientific
Origin
Etymology tree English anti- Proto-Indo-European *sek-? Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *skey-der. Latin sciō Latin sciēns Latin -ia Latin scientialbor. Old French sciencebor. Middle English science English science English antiscience From anti- + science.
Noun
- 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. - 2007, Martin...
Coordinate Terms: anti-intellectualism pseudoscience nonscience