scienticide
UK/sɪˈɛntɪsaɪd/
scienticide noun: destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
Noun
scienticide (plural not attested)
- Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
- In the AVNOJ-Yugoslav period, a significant network of educational-scientific and scientific-research institutions was developed. In the period of the Chetnik, tiral-fascist aggression, Sarajevo has experienced an actual scienticide.1997: Dževad Juzbašić [ed.], Prilozi Historiji Sarajeva, page 523 (Institut za Istoriju, Orijentalni Institut)
- Their myths neglected the heredity, while their “research” activities were full of primitive mistakes and falsifications, and followed by the massive administrative terror that was supported by the government. It led to the broad “scienticide” in fSU.2000: Alexander E. Sedov, New Russian myths around genetic research in mass-media and in common mind, §3: “Negation and ignorance of heredity in fSU and in modern Russia”, page 5
Origin of scienticide
From scient- (stem of science) + -i- + -cide (“killing”).
Questions about scienticide
- What does scienticide mean?
- Scienticide means destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.
- What part of speech is scienticide?
- Scienticide is a noun.
- How do you pronounce scienticide?
- Scienticide is pronounced /sɪˈɛntɪsaɪd/ (UK).
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