Antiscience

Quick meaning: Antiscience is an adjective meaning Opposed to science and scientific progress.

Meaning

Opposed to science and scientific progress.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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 antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”

Word Forms

• antisciences

Synonyms for antiscience

Depending on context, synonyms include antiscientific.

Antonyms for antiscience

Common opposites include proscience, proscientific.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include anti-science, antiscientific, counterscientific, antitechnological, antitechnology, antiprogress.

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