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Re:Six Signs of Scientism (2009) [pdf] by mannykannot on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:36PM (#23134883)
I am not sure the author is being entirely consistent here. For example, in #3, identifying and rooting out pseudo-science is listed as a sign of scientism, yet in #2, we are told that the signs of scientisim incude "inappropriately borrowed scientific trappings." This looks to me to be a pretty good definition of pseudo-science, in which case the author is performing, in section 2, an analysis that she deprecates in section 3.

On second reading, I think the author is objecting to the practice of denigrating respectable modes of inquiry as "pseudo-science" merely because they cannot match some idealistic standard of rigor.

Re:Six Signs of Scientism (2009) [pdf] by generalpass on Sunday May 10, 2020 @02:55PM (#23135054)
I read "inappropriately borrowed scientific trappings" as being similar to what the Austrian School economists discuss when they explain how hard science techniques are being adopted in the social sciences when they really cannot serve the same purpose.

Whereas under pseudo-science I considered Eugenics, a belief system finding that mankind would go extinct due to inferior breeding.

Re:Six Signs of Scientism (2009) [pdf] by mannykannot on Sunday May 10, 2020 @03:06PM (#23135163)
Yes, I think you are right about that.