Complete Definition of "crank science"

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Noun
crank science

  1. pejorative Pseudo-science; activity which appears to be science-like but is not founded on proper scientific methods.

Quotations
2001, While global warming is far from "crank science", as the critics of Kyoto have called it, it is not the science any practising politician is likely to remember from high school, or voters readily comprehend. — London Review of Books, 21 June 2001

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