Definition of "pseudoscientist" []

• A practitioner of pseudoscience. (noun)

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• "The label pseudoscientist is commonly given to cranks and charlatans, who claim abnormal powers and abilities, but refuse to demonstrate them in objective, controlled, monitored environments."
• "More accurately, the "pseudoscience" accusation puts forward the claim, important if true, that the pseudoscientist is using sophisticated, well-developed and superficially appealing rhetoric to give the appearance of scientific substance where none actually exists."
• "He was not a pseudoscientist or a quack, but was the great figure of invertebrate biology he coined the word “invertebrate”"