junk science

Junk science is a term used in U.S. political and legal disputes that brands an advocate's claims about scientific data, research, analyses as spurious. The term generally conveys a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, and other unscientific motives.
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Any mode, instance, or product of pseudoscience, especially misinterpretation of scientific data, or faulty organized data from science, that is used to promote an ideology and/or to increase finances.