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Originally Posted by jayswin
You learn something new everyday. I had to look up the definition "scientism" cause I had literally never heard it before.
Seem like kind of a weird word. Who has excessive belief in scientific knowledge? Doesn't that go against how scientists study and practice?
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I would say that having unrealistic expectations about what science is and what it can and cannot do is definitely an issue. Posts like Flames Gimp's betrays a belief that ONLY things that are known scientifically are relevant or important at the expensive of other forms of knowledge. Another poster, T@T, used to make a habit of disparaging anything to do with the arts and humanities as somehow tedious or entirely novel in the face of science.
My point is that excessive expectations and dependencies on any forms of knowledge or disciplines is not socially productive nor generally healthy.