Editing Junk science (section)

==Definition==
Junk science has been defined as:

* "science done to establish a preconceived notion—not to test the notion, which is what proper science tries to do, but to establish it regardless of whether or not it would hold up to real testing."<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Garfinkle |first1=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uy9VFsFvAUC&dq=%22pseudoscience%22+%22junk+science%22&pg=PT263 |title=Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter |last2=Garfinkle |first2=Richard |date=2009-05-15 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-28349-4 |pages=255 |language=en |access-date=2024-01-23 |archive-date=2024-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207162722/https://books.google.com/books?id=_uy9VFsFvAUC&dq=%22pseudoscience%22+%22junk+science%22&pg=PT263 |url-status=live }}</ref>  
* "opinion posing as empirical evidence, or through evidence of questionable warrant, based on inadequate scientific methodology."<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=Lilienfeld |first1=Scott O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Olk8BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA282 |title=Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology |last2=Lynn |first2=Steven Jay |last3=Lohr |first3=Jeffrey M. |date=2014-10-17 |publisher=Guilford Publications |isbn=978-1-4625-1759-6 |pages=282 |language=en |access-date=2024-01-23 |archive-date=2024-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207162722/https://books.google.com/books?id=Olk8BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA282 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "methodologically sloppy research conducted to advance some extrascientific agenda or to prevail in litigation."<ref name=":4" />