
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-SCIENCE CUNTING
The modern cult of ‘The Science’ and seeing science as dogmatic.
‘Scientism’ is an idea that science is the be all and end all of human enquiry, that everything worth knowing can be extrapolated from science, that is has prescriptive as well as descriptive qualities.
Nowadays it’s more of an attitude, exemplified by some quotes;
‘Follow The Science’
‘The Science is settled’
‘We Own The Science’
Two of these are from Politicians, the first is from a journalist from The Washington Post.
The last one is particularly bizarre and spectacularly arrogant, and was uttered by Jacinda Ardern.
It sums up an attitude of certain non-scientists in the media, politicians and activists and hip randoms on the internet who like to treat ‘The Science’ as either a doctrine or dogma. It’s an orthodoxy. They think of it as unalterable and unchanging; i.e. what was written in The Naked Ape in 1968 still holds for evolutionary biology and anthropology today. They do not understand how science is dominated by a paradigm in certain eras, eventually to give way to a new paradigm when more accurate observations and weight of evidence demands it.
We’ve seen much scientism, mandates to follow The Science and abandonment of openness and curiosity recently, discounting of theories and evidence because it’s politically inconvenient, be it in origins of Covid, climate policies and gender differences.
I have a few friends who aren’t scientists but are interested enough to want to learn about it, even at a technical and relatively complex level. Those who are interested approach with humility and also curiosity regarding the logical underpinnings of what makes science actually work as an investigative tool.
There are others I’ve known, who are poseurs, bleating out ‘Yay, science!’ but they are followers of the cult of scientism and dogma, usually via the media. They’ll pay lip service to contributions to civilisation but fail to examine anything that might challenge the current thinking. They all fell into the new atheist personality cult and assume owniing 4 books by Richard Dawkins is a substitute for genuine curiosity.
They’re the ‘Walts’ of science fandom. They inhabit Facebook pages and Reddit threads, and the YouTube comments. I knew a bloke in his forties who genuinely thought watching Cosmos and reading a few non-technical pop-science books was equivalent to a BSc in Astrophysics, whereas I also know two people who’ve earned that through actual rigour over 3-4 years at Russell Group universities.
These people are such cunts, I sometimes pretend to believe in creationism just to wind them up.
The Scientist.
Nominated by : Cuntamus Prime
Apologies for not having a nomination at 10.00 am. The next one today will be at 15.00. C.A.
Hopefully it is fixed now, tech is a cunt. C.A.