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We need to get away from the idea of "the Science" altogether because it's an incomplete abstraction and prone to corruption. What is valuable are specific pri
by apatters 5y ago
We need to get away from the idea of "the Science" altogether because it's an incomplete abstraction and prone to corruption.
What is valuable are specific principles like dedeuctive reasoning and the scientific method, upon which we've built our greatest achievements as a species.
Trusting "the Science" without understanding what that really means is basically just another form of religion, complete with its own priesthood and people who demand that whatever the priests say must be taken on faith because it's moral and good.
Philosophers have observed that this blind belief in "the Science" is actually worse than belief in religion. Because while religion roots its authority in the divine (which either doesn't exist or chooses not to get directly involved), the church of Science roots its authority in men. Men declare a truth and a morality based on what they claim to be scientific, then go on to commit atrocities they rationalize from it. The greatest mass murderers in history were atheists like Stalin and Mao. They were the little gods of their own secular personality cults and they committed genocide on a scale that had never before been seen.