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