extrascientific

For example, in his 2001 book Scientism: Science, Ethics, and Religion, Mikael Stenmark pointed out that statements such as Francis Crick's claim that "we are nothing but packs of neutrons," Carl Sagan's "the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be," and Richard Dawkins's "every living object's sole reason for living is that of being a machine for propagating DNA" are extrascientific or philosophical claims.

Robert J. Cabin: Blinding Ourselves With Scientism Robert J. Cabin 2011

For example, in his 2001 book Scientism: Science, Ethics, and Religion, Mikael Stenmark pointed out that statements such as Francis Crick's claim that "we are nothing but packs of neutrons," Carl Sagan's "the Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be," and Richard Dawkins's "every living object's sole reason for living is that of being a machine for propagating DNA" are extrascientific or philosophical claims.

Robert J. Cabin: Blinding Ourselves With Scientism Robert J. Cabin 2011

By thus disparaging the “tendentious conclusions” of his own objective analysis, and by the irony of the “perhaps” with reference to the extrascientific choices supposedly “imposed” on him, Marx implicitly revealed the methodological key to fusing the two aspects.

2009 October 2009

By thus disparaging the “tendentious conclusions” of his own objective analysis, and by the irony of the “perhaps” with reference to the extrascientific choices supposedly “imposed” on him, Marx implicitly revealed the methodological key to fusing the two aspects.

The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

Although there also seems to be a quasi-junk science element paraphrasing, “inadvertantly sloppy research usually conducted to advance some extrascientific agenda or to prevail in litigation.”

Willis on Santer et al 2006 « Climate Audit 2006

"Those who seek extrascientific messages in what they think they understand about modern physics," says Weinberg, "are digging dry wells."

Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange Byers, Nina 1996

It is one of the ‘extrascientific’ criteria I would apply to decide whether someone’s work needs more examination.

In the Mail Today « Climate Audit 2005