pelology

pelology

(piːˈlɒlədʒɪ)
n
(Complementary Medicine) the study of the therapeutic uses of mud
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This week, the purveyors of political pelology found themselves a new concern with which to muddy the already plenty murky waters of our public discourse: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her tenuous grasp of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.