totally
best to get an understanding of it so that it can be used for beneficial purposes and not just harmful ones
>What most people are doing when they appeal to "science" is appealing to authority. All they are doing is taking orders from so-called 'experts.'
scientism over the scientific method
https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2015/06/10/the-faustian-face-of-modern-science-understanding-the-epistemological-foundations-of-scientific-totalitarianism/
you're welcome.
author's written several excellent pieces on the subject.
it sounds conspicuously like what Epstein was into.
https://newswithviews.com/Collins/phillip16.htm
Scientism is, in essence, the fetishization of science. It holds aloft the investigational methods of science as the sole criteria for establishing truth.
Scientism should not be confused with legitimate science.
Its epistemological rigidity would probably discourage the genuinely investigative mind. Ironically, many of the minds that shaped modern science were not nearly as rigid.
Arguably, if the innovators of previous generations had labored under such pathological skepticism, then many of them would have never discovered the breakthroughs in science and technology that this current generation enjoys.