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- adjective
seemingly scientific , especially by using thelanguage but not themethods orrigour ofscience
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Thanks John R Johnson, this fanboi might just submit a quasiscientific rant on the Wave in future, maybe even in short story format..
Cheeseburger Gothic » A generous serving of fan fic to see you thru the winter. Or summer. 2009
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Hubbard was a prolific writer all his life; there are millions of words credited to him, roughly a quarter-million of them contained within Dianetics, the best-selling quasiscientific self-help book that is the most famous Scientology text.
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They were led by Madame Helena Blavatsky, the Russian Jewish inventor of Theosophy, a fashionable medley of Spiritualism, personality cult, and quasiscientific search for the common origin of all religion.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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To feed their hunger for information and stimulation, he had always organized his American Museum around a quasiscientific agenda.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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They were led by Madame Helena Blavatsky, the Russian Jewish inventor of Theosophy, a fashionable medley of Spiritualism, personality cult, and quasiscientific search for the common origin of all religion.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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They were led by Madame Helena Blavatsky, the Russian Jewish inventor of Theosophy, a fashionable medley of Spiritualism, personality cult, and quasiscientific search for the common origin of all religion.
Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007
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You, as usual, are painting the world with the colors of your limited palette, trying to demonize those who do not share your views or philosophy and doing so in a pseudointellectual, quasiscientific, and circular reasoning fashion.
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"enigmalogist" who investigates mysterious or unexplained quasiscientific phenomenon.
unknown title 2009
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"enigmalogist" who investigates mysterious or unexplained quasiscientific phenomenon.
unknown title 2009
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