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What is the noun for pseudoscientists?

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pseudoscientist
  1. A practitioner of (a presumed) pseudoscience (i.e. "false scientist", "bogus scientist" "sham scientist", "inauthentic scientist").
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    1. “In 1948, he published a blistering front-page article in Combat attacking the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko as a pseudoscientist.”
      “Brisnins, a pseudoscientist with derisory illusions of wisdom and knowledge.”
pseudoscience
  1. Any body of knowledge that purports to be scientific or to be supported by science but which fails to comply with the scientific method.
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    1. “The author makes certain, however, to start his article in a fashion exemplary of purveyors of pseudoscience.”
      “Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry and I know that psychiatry is a pseudoscience.”
      “A pseudoscience is set of ideas based on theories put forth as scientific when they are not scientific.”
pseudoscientists
  1. plural of pseudoscientist
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    1. “At the same time, NGOs and pseudoscientists are calling for more regulations of ingredients and formulas.”
      “Now Lily found herself in Hollywood, California, on the set of a television show bustling with pseudoscientists and make-believe pathologists.”
      “Watson quote Tsalapinas cited was actually made in 1929 and has been widely regarded as, well, dumb, except by science deniers and pseudoscientists.”
pseudosciences
  1. plural of pseudoscience
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    1. “Licensure of practitioners of various pseudosciences is often treated as endorsement and as a gateway to greater privileges.”
      “Another common theme is the debunking of the fringe pseudosciences or other untenable positions.”
      “This kind of data retrofitting is common among believers in such pseudosciences as astrology, graphology and biorhythms.”
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