^"Pseudoscientific - pretending to be scientific, falsely represented as being scientific", from the Oxford American Dictionary, published by the Oxford English Dictionary.
^"A pretended or spurious science; a collection of related beliefs about the world mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method or as having the status that scientific truths now have.", from the Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition 1989.
^For example, Hewitt et al. Conceptual Physical Science Addison Wesley; 3 edition(July 18, 2003)ISBN 978-0-321-05173-8, Bennett et al. The Cosmic Perspective 3e Addison Wesley; 3 edition(July 25, 2003)ISBN 978-0-8053-8738-4
^See also, e.g., Gauch HG Jr. Scientific Method in Practice(2003)
^However, from the "them vs. us" polarization that its usage engenders, the term may also have a positive function because "[the] derogatory labeling of others often includes an unstated self-definition "(p.266); and, from this, the application of the term also implies "a unity of science, a privileged tree of knowledge or space from which the pseudoscience is excluded, and the user's right to belong is asserted "(p.286) -- Still A & Dryden W (2004) "The Social Psychology of "Pseudoscience": A Brief History", J Theory Social Behav 34:265-290