#scientism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scientism, aggregated by home.social.
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Almost a year old, this #GaryNolan interview with #RobinsonErhardt is more interesting and relevant than the Whitehouse Disclosure data dump. Why? because it looks at #UAP / #UFO phenomena through the lens of our most powerful tools, #science *
#Stanford <https://youtube.com/watch?v=QpJebYW_vb4>
*Yes Gary also bags out the #scientism of Neil deGrasse Tyson and it’s censored 🤣☺️
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It's really curious... I post something about the connections between #math and #magic, between #Science and #Esotericism, between #BeliefSystems in #technology and #religion, and it's unlikely that people react to my post.
Let's face it, if thinking about the history of #CommonSense and science amounts to #heresy then it's #scientism.
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...we live in a culture of relentless, round-the-clock boosterism for science and technology. With each new discovery and invention, the virtues are always oversold, the drawbacks understated. Who can forget the freely mobile society of the automobile, the friendly atom, the paperless office, the impending crisis of too much leisure time, or the era of universal education ushered in by television? We now hear the same utopian claims about the Internet. But everyone knows science and technology are inevitably a mixed blessing.
-- Michael Crichton (Science, March 1999) -
Can recommend this article on #Mises/#Hayek in the LRB https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/jonathan-ree/opium-of-the-elite Interesting that Hayek opposed #scientism but that there's no mention of his cousin, #Wittgenstein, who also opposed it, for different (better) reasons