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I refer to that as 'credentialism'. It's a terrible social ill.
by cryptonector 2y ago
I refer to that as 'credentialism'. It's a terrible social ill.
- _yb2s 2y agoThere's more to it than that, but I'm not sure what to call it- it also seems to include an absolute religion-like faith in, e.g. the absolute correctness of positions from official organizations and current scientific understanding. Even if a scientific researcher or medical doctor has an informed opinion based on new data that differs from mainstream recommendations - even when it can clearly be demonstrated that those recommendations simply haven't been updated yet for new evidence, they will attack that person also. I used to call it 'scientism' but someone else on here in a recent argument pointed out to me that scientism really just means that you believe that science can in principle be used to understand anything if you do it correctly- which I agree with.
- cryptonector 2y agoCredentialism is about the appeal to authority. It's true that they then dismiss authorities they don't like or agree with. There's no good name for this whole phenomenon, not yet.