antiscience

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ science.

Adjective

antiscience (not comparable)

1. Opposed to science and scientific progress.

   Antonym: proscience

   Coordinate terms: (overlapping) anti-intellectual, antieducation; pseudoscientific; (including being indifferent) nonscientific, unscientific

   • 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN‎:

     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.”

   • 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN‎:

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

Translations

opposed to science and scientific progress

Portuguese: anticiência Sicilian: antiscènzia Spanish: anticiencia Ukrainian: антинауко́вий (uk) (antynaukóvyj)

Noun

antiscience (countable and uncountable, plural antisciences)

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

   Coordinate terms: (overlapping) anti-intellectualism; pseudoscience; (including indifference) nonscience

   • 2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century, page 95:

     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.

Translations

the abuse or rejection of traditional science

Portuguese: anticiência f