One doesn't have to be a professional anthropologist to see that since some time in the 19th century “science” became a popular set of religious beliefs that ex

One doesn't have to be a professional anthropologist to see that since some time in the 19th century “science” became a popular set of religious beliefs that explain the world to a commoner, thanks to mass education. Semi-jokingly, the watershed was when charlatans started promoting snake oils using scientific language. The spherical Universal Observer in a vacuum, which is understood (at least by some scientists) to be an idealized part of the imaginary model cleaned from the impurities of reality, is considered a possibility, a goal, a metaphor of “all human knowledge combined” in that trivialized belief. Various faces of scientism have been criticized in various ways for all that time, from obvious examples in Dostoevsky novels to hardcore philosophical papers.