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Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion
- beerbajay 11y agoWhat a awful, sloppy article. > Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt No, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubting results until they are sufficiently repeated. > scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the truth You can of course discover/reveal "truths" (facts!) without the science but these can be tested/confirmed via the scientific method. > dismissingly brands Shakespeare and Chekhov as without intellectual value This is a seriously disingenuous attack on the unnamed researcher who almost certainly isn't counting the humanities amongst his targets. > Science wouldn’t appear so harshly incompatible with spirituality. Ah! The hidden agenda, finally.