Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pseudo-scientific
also pseudoscientific, 1816; see pseudo- + scientific; also compare pseudo-science.\n
Usage examples of "pseudo-scientific".
The authors of these pseudo-scientific fairy tales supply the public with what it wants: truisms, cliches, stereotypes, all sufficiently costumed and made "wonderful" so that the reader may sink into a safe state of surprise and at the same time not be jostled out of his philosophy of life.
His name is not invented, but is from Bernardus Silvestris, as I think is explained at the end of the book (not that I think that this learned detail matters, but it is as legitimate as pseudo-scientific learning).