quasi-scientific

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 2009

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.

Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed Milton Curry 2011

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.

Kevin Bermeister: Time Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science Kevin Bermeister 2011

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 2009

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.

Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed Milton Curry 2011

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

The atomic theory of sub-headings 2009

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.

Pete Enns: Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution And Evangelicals Pete Enns 2012

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

Milk: A Local and Global History by Deborah Valenze – review 2011

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.

Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed Milton Curry 2011

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

Honfleur Gallery and Mexican Cultural Institute exhibits pit art against design 2010