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scienticide

Today it means: Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science. Full definition →

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From scient- (stem of science) + -i- + -cide (“killing”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.