quasi-scientific

• “To think that the Israelites, alone among all other ancient peoples, were interested in or capable of giving some definitive, quasi-scientific, account of human origins is an absurd logic.”

  The Huffington Post: Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals

• “They are fooled by the subterfuge of the quasi-scientific, and take comfort from the apparent ability of science to discern the universe's infinite origin.”

  The Huffington Post: Kevin Bermeister: Time Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science

• “Today, we are no less exercised by myths and quasi-scientific beliefs about milk.”

  The Guardian: Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze – review

• “It may have been selected by elimination, as a relatively neutral and quasi-scientific term.”

  The atomic theory of sub-headings

• “The problem with architecture and urbanism today is its interest in a new autonomy garnered from quasi-scientific processes including but not limited to digital and data-driven design and urban analyses.”

  The Huffington Post: Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed

• “That these disciplines now focus almost exclusively on a quasi-scientific study of "culture" suggests that "humanities" as an umbrella term ought to just be dropped in favor of the more descriptive "cultural studies," which might indeed include "everything.”

  Literary Study

• “This problem has suffered the indignity of being dismissed as unimportant to a basic understanding of biology by molecular biology; it went effectively unrecognized by a microbiology still in the throes of trying to find itself; and it became the private domain of a quasi-scientific movement, who secreted it away in a morass of petty scholasticism, effectively disguising the fact that their primary concern with it was ideological, not scientific.”

  2009 September - Telic Thoughts

• “I can't muster the same kindness for Colleen Heineman, who attempts a quasi-scientific analysis of household clutter by producing small copper objects.”

  The Washington Post: Honfleur Gallery and Mexican Cultural Institute exhibits pit art against design

• “His guilt eventually got the better of him, but instead of confessing immediately, he went to the bookstore and bought his ex-teacher a copy of "The Answer" instead ( "available wherever dubious quasi-scientific self-help books are sold").”

  The Huffington Post: 'The Simpsons' Mock 'The Secret' (VIDEO)

• “Her second book, "Spook," explored scientific and quasi-scientific studies of the afterlife.”

  The Washington Post: How do astronauts go to the bathroom in zero gravity?

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