Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion(qz.com)
qz.com
Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion
http://qz.com/476722/be-careful-your-love-of-science-looks-a-lot-like-religion/
http://qz.com/476722/be-careful-your-love-of-science-looks-a-lot-like-religion/
> Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt
No, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubting results until they are sufficiently repeated.
> scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the truth
You can of course discover/reveal "truths" (facts!) without the science but these can be tested/confirmed via the scientific method.
> dismissingly brands Shakespeare and Chekhov as without intellectual value
This is a seriously disingenuous attack on the unnamed researcher who almost certainly isn't counting the humanities amongst his targets.
> Science wouldn’t appear so harshly incompatible with spirituality.
Ah! The hidden agenda, finally.