Vittoria could think of a lot of words to describe science, but in the modern world "irrelevant" did not seem like one of them.
Junk science is typically used politically to describe agenda-driven science.
The Pisan astronomer struggled to describe science in terms of the prevailing vocabulary of his day, which was religion and the Bible.
He states that the book is intended to debunk popular myths and also to describe science in an easily comprehensible way.
Islam and science describes the relationship between Muslim communities and science in general.
Borrowing a term from the Catholic Church, Gould describes science and religion as each comprise a separate magisterium of human understanding.
The phrase "not even wrong" is often used to describe pseudoscience or bad science and is considered derogatory.
Space opera is sometimes used pejoratively, to describe improbable plots, absurd science, and cardboard characters.
However government policy with respect to what might be described "pure" science has been ambiguous.
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.