John, a researcher, uses terms and demonstrations that seem scientific to substantiate his claim that heart disease is not genetic by nature. However, this claim has no valid scientific basis. This is an example of

A. subscience.
B. nescience.
C. prescience.
D. pseudoscience.


Answer: D

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