parascience

/ ˈpærəˌsaɪəns /

noun

1. the study of subjects that are outside the scope of traditional science because they cannot be explained by accepted scientific theory or tested by conventional scientific methods

Example Sentences

Her colleague, fellow senior editor David Harsanyi, went further, listing “five ways liberals ignore science,” from anti-vaccination and anti-genetically modified foods dogma, to global warming “alarmism,” fracking, and a whole host of parascience beliefs.

From Slate

They wrote a particularly eye-opening paper in 1990, published in the journal Mutation Research and titled “Paracelsus to parascience: the environmental cancer distraction.”

From New York Times

A difference between a Newton and a Comte, between science and parascience, is the desire in the latter case to treat scientific knowledge as complete, at least in its methods and assumptions, in order to further the primary object of closing questions about human nature and the human circumstance.

From The Guardian

As practitioners of a parascience, the authors are rightly humble about confusing their models with immutable truths.

From Time Magazine Archive