The Religion of Scientism

#TrustTheScience isn't science. It's a religion.

by Rod D. Martin
August 11, 2021

A friend of mine clearly has COVID: she’s exhausted, has lost taste and smell, etc.  

For complicated reasons, she had five COVID tests in the last few days. Two came back positive, three negative.

But #FollowTheScience, right? 

The religion of Scientism is widespread now. Its priests (like Fauci) can do no wrong, and are never wrong, no matter how many times they’re actually wrong, how many times they contradict themselves, or how many blatant hypocrisies they indulge.

“Scientists can’t be wrong!” (Narrator: Science is a process and is constantly wrong, no matter how much it gets right.)

Or worse and more pervasive, but left unspoken: “Scientists would never have an agenda, be subject to corruption, or lie!”

Who funds their work? And are they not subject to fallenness? Are they not subject to the fallacies of their presuppositions, or the limitations of their tools, like other people? Are they really an incorruptible priesthood devoted exclusively to truth?

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