Dividing the world into alleged institutions that produce facts, and institutions that don't is exactly what scientism is. Querying public opinion is a method

Dividing the world into alleged institutions that produce facts, and institutions that don't is exactly what scientism is. Querying public opinion is a method of determining facts, even special interests provide facts. 'Scientism' consists of what Feyerabend called 'methodological monism', believing in the notion that there is any privileged authority to 'speak facts'. Someone who properly understands 'science' understands that the processes to produce knowledge are as dynamic as facts themselves. All efforts to produce some sort of privileged methodology produce bureaucracy and standardization that closes science off from avenues that can produce knowledge. Elevating this bureaucratic caste of scientists to political authority is scientism.