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>Scientism is the view that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality. While the odds are not on m
by moralestapia 2y ago
>Scientism is the view that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.
While the odds are not on my favor trying to argue against a wikipedia definition, I would say that is a different concept from what I refer to as scientism (and a lot of other people, I imagine).
Scientism is taking arguments made by science or by scientists and believing in them as if they were an unquestionable set of precepts that govern life and other affairs, "because science".
This, in the same way as other -isms work, hence the addition of the suffix, to poke fun at the concept.
"Because science said so" being the modern equivalent of "because god said so", with all its downstream effects pretty much unmodified.
- Hugsun 2y agoThe next paragraph says: > While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)".