junk scienceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

junk science (uncountable)

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.

   • 2010, Naomi Oreskes; Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:

     Tom Hockaday was an APCO employee, and March 1993 found him working closely with Philip Morris vice president Ellen Merlo to develop scientific articles to defend secondhand smoke and promote the idea that the EPA work was “junk science.”

   • 2022 June 9, Matthew Taylor, “Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Climate policy is being dragged into the culture wars with misinformation and junk science being spread across the internet by a relatively small group of individuals and groups, according to a study.