junk science
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Assertions or methods that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific legitimacy.
Countable; Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "His testimony was worse than science fiction: it was junk science."
- "Our field falls neither in the category of immediately acceptable DNA experts at one end of the spectrum nor in the category of the immediately unacceptable so-called junk sciences at the other end."
- "Tom Hockaday was an APCO employee, and March 1993 found him working closely with Philip Morris vice president Ellen Merlo to develop scientific articles to defend secondhand smoke and promote the idea that the EPA work was “junk science.”"
- "Climate policy is being dragged into the culture wars with misinformation and junk science being spread across the internet by a relatively small group of individuals and groups, according to a study."