English Dictionary

junk science

名詞

軽蔑的 不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable, derogatory) Assertions that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific support.

日本語の意味

（軽蔑的な意味で）科学的な支持があるように見せかけながら、実際には信頼できる根拠がない主張や理論を指す。 / 表面的には科学的に見えるが、実際は誤った、または不十分な科学的データに基づく説や見解。

The judge rejected the expert's testimony because it was based on junk science rather than rigorous research.

裁判官は専門家の証言を、厳密な研究ではなく疑似科学に基づくものだとして退けた。

意味（1）

(uncountable, derogatory) Assertions that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific support.

His testimony was worse than science fiction: it was junk science.

意味（2）

(countable, derogatory) A cluster of assertions, publications, and experts that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of a scientific specialty.

Our field falls neither in the category of immediately acceptable DNA experts at one end of the spectrum nor in the category of the immediately unacceptable so-called junk sciences at the other end.

junk sciences （ plural ）