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I've been wondering if fundamentalist positivism might not be the "Vatican dogma" of the next dark age. I'm skeptical of this claim, but I don't fault them for
by api 12y ago
I've been wondering if fundamentalist positivism might not be the "Vatican dogma" of the next dark age.
I'm skeptical of this claim, but I don't fault them for trying. I also don't fault them for having strange beliefs. All sorts of geniuses have had very odd beliefs, from Newton onward. Seems to go hand in hand with the kind of bravely inquisitive mind that does such things.
- sonoffett 12y agoYep, going to leave this here again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Inquisition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Inquisition
- api 12y agoYeah, I'm not by any means the first. Note that I do not mean science. Fundamentalist positivism is really a religious fundamentalist movement built around scientific nomenclature and academic orthodoxy. I consider it a form of cargo cult pseudoscience.