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The extension of Western scientific standards and institutions as a global norm, often through coercion or economic pressure, while dismissing or suppressing indigenous and local knowledge systems as “pseudoscience.” Anti‑pseudoscience imperialism operates through international aid conditionalities, global ranking systems, and educational curricula that present Western science as the only legitimate way of knowing. It replicates colonial patterns: extraction of resources, suppression of alternatives, and a civilizing mission dressed in lab coats. The result is epistemic violence—the destruction of diverse ways of knowing under the banner of universal reason.
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