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No. Science is nothing remotely close to a religion, let alone a "dangerous" one. Religion requires faith and the rejection of anything that contradicts that fa

• therisingsea 7mo ago
  The point is that science can still become dogma when people treat it as the only source of truth, or when institutions use it to shut down doubt, ethics, or wider questions. In practice, take for example the peer review process. Proof work in science and mathematics often depends on trust in other work, tools, and reviewers, since no one can check everything alone. Many results are accepted before full checking is done. In that sense, it requires a small amount of trust/faith in other people's work, but it is a tested and limited trust, not blind belief.
  • JohnFen 6mo ago
    > The point is that science can still become dogma when people treat it as the only source of truth, or when institutions use it to shut down doubt, ethics, or wider questions. Except that behaving that way is not science or scientific. Just because people blame their behavior on "science" doesn't mean that they're being scientific. > take for example the peer review process. The peer review process is also not, in and of itself, science. It's bureaucracy. Science is simply a method of inquiry. Nothing more and nothing less.