“Scientism is a term generally used to describe the facile application of science in unwarranted situations not covered by the scientific method.” — Wikipedia
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij
Reminds me of Susan Haack's Six Signs of Scientism https://pervegalit.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/haack-six-signs-of-scientism-october-17-2009.pdf …pic.twitter.com/V1LsDc20eZ
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The most amusing thing about scientism is: "Ironically, scientism proponents, despite it being a philosophical epistemological position in and of itself, completely reject philosophy, ethics, and the reasons why logical positivism (an almost identical, although less extreme
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version of this philosophy) failed. As such it is completely self-annihilating, even though many prominent pop scientists implicitly or explicitly promote it." http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Scientism
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Exactly!
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Yeah, researching that was "fun". 
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