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woo-monger en · NOUN

Etymology

From woo + monger.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, informal) A proponent of pseudoscientific ideas or practices.
   • Just as Cohen feels there is no natural party for humanists, Wilson feels there isn’t one for supporters of evidence-based policy. "There are good MPs in all parties, and there are woo-mongers in all parties," he says. “We have to look at each case individually. […] 2010, Paul Sims, "Cast away", New Humanist, Volume 125, Issue 2, March/April 2010
   • Wyley resorts to the usual rhetoric of all woo-mongers: that the belief they propose cannot be measured by the standards they apply to all other practices. 2009 March 13, Kevin Charleston, letter to the editor, Mail & Guardian:
   • If a site like Huffington Post, which just got funds to pay reporters, publicly eliminates their pseudoscience, HIV denialist, New Age woo-mongers and hires some real science/nature/medicine reporters instead, it is in a position to do the ‘push strategy’ on science. 2011 August 30, Bora Zivkovic, “Defining the Journalism vs. Blogging Debate, with a Science Reporting angle”, in Scientific American:

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