Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader, called the new approach "voodoo science and arbitrary numbers."

Mr. Daniel said Mr. Shorstein had relied on "bogus, junk, voodoo science" in claiming to find residue of a particular poison in Mrs. Sybers's corpse.

Charlie McCollum of the San Jose Mercury News called it a "third-rate disaster flick - with lame dialogue, voodoo science and wooden performances - spread out over two nights and four seemingly endless hours."

If you can't expose voodoo science, then you don't deserve to win.

Federal prosecutor Roseann Ketchmark characterized Ramachandran's theory linking the murder/kidnapping to pseudocyesis as "voodoo science."

Other terms used for the portions of fringe science that lack scientific integrity are pathological science, voodoo science, and cargo cult science.

Bob Vetere, president of the American Pet Product Manufacturers Association, told me, "You're going to have a real battle here" between hybrid dog breeders and "the purists who say this is all 25th-century voodoo science."

Dr Pachauri dismissed the more moderate forecasts as "voodoo science".

This book is meant to help the reader to recognize voodoo science and to understand the forces that seem to conspire to keep it alive.

It has some of the traits of voodoo science.