The recent documentary “Chasing Einstein”, which centers on the hunt for dark matter (and the possibility that physicists are looking for something that doesn't exist) got me thinking about similarities between religious and intellectual cults. What do you think?
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Replying to @chagmed
I suppose there will inevitably be overlap, because humans. One could look at it with a sort of 'implicit religion' lens (which is a new-ish subset of RS) It's probably a good idea for people to consider how doing religion well and doing science well (both good), look different
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What do you have in mind RE how doing each well looks different?
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I'm not a scientist so I'm not qualified to say what it means to do science well, but
@Meaningness has said many interesting/helpful things on that. Doing religion well includes recognising that humans do religion (especially secular folk), and understanding major failure modes.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
A failure to understand human religious type behaviours might result people treating their research area as their sole source of meaning and purpose, for example.
A failure to do science well fails to produce knowledge (I guess
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I'll have a think. It's an interesting question
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