pseudoscientific

English

pseudoscience +‎ -ific, by analogy with scientific

pseudoscientific (comparative more pseudoscientific, superlative most pseudoscientific)

Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.
- 1996, Mark E. Ware, David E. Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology:
  Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific, fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans.
- 2003, Robert Todd Carroll, The skeptic's dictionary:
  Some pseudoscientific theories explain what nonbelievers cannot even observe, for example, orgone energy.

of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience

Belarusian: псеўданавуко́вы (psjeŭdanavukóvy)
Catalan: pseudocientífic
Chinese:
Mandarin: 偽科學的／伪科学的 (zh) (wěikēxué de)
Czech: pavědecký m, pseudovědecký m
Danish: pseudovidenskabelig
Dutch: pseudowetenschappelijk (nl)
Esperanto: pseŭdoscienca
Finnish: pseudotieteellinen (fi), näennäistieteellinen (fi)
French: pseudo-scientifique (fr), pseudoscientifique (fr)
German: pseudowissenschaftlich (de), afterwissenschaftlich, scheinwissenschaftlich
Hungarian: áltudományos (hu)
Ido: pseudociencala (io)
Japanese: 疑似科学的 (gijikagakuteki)
Kazakh: жалған ғылыми (jalğan ğylymi), жалған ғылымдық (jalğan ğylymdyq)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pseudovitenskapelig

Nynorsk: pseudovitskapeleg, pseudovitskapleg
Polish: pseudonaukowy (pl)
Portuguese: pseudocientífico
Russian: псевдонау́чный (ru) (psevdonaúčnyj)
Spanish: pseudocientífico (es)
Swedish: pseudovetenskaplig (sv)
Ukrainian: псевдонауко́вий (psevdonaukóvyj)

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