This result suggested that the novel properties of polywater were due to contamination from biological impurities, and later described the proposal of polywater as an example of Pathological science.
Another example of semantic discord can be found in N-rays under Pathological science.
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The "mitogenetic ray" was one of the scientific topics qualified by Irving Langmuir as pathological science.