Meaning of woo-monger | Babel Free

Definitions

A proponent of pseudoscientific ideas or practices.

derogatory, informal

Examples

“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.”

“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. […]”

“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.”

CEFR level