Tyson epitomizes the glib, and dangerous, arrogance of scientism: science as an ideology, science as a privileged and only valid way of knowing. Tyson, like Stephen Hawking, doesn’t even know ...

However, a healthy pro-science attitude is not the same thing as "scientism," which is the view that the scientific method is the only way to establish truth. As the problem of consciousness is ...

Scientism would put science as the sole candidate in deciding what is true, with its empirical method being the ultimate judge. Anti-scientism would, on the other hand, question the borders and ...