Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain

[Brakeman]

You don't just go making up words by slapping an "ism" on it and call it a religion or a "pseudo-religion." "Scientism" is a word made up by woo woo doctors to push a anti-science agenda. Even though it may be espoused by others, it is a nonsensical term as the definition of science does not lend itself to the creation of an "ism".
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Anyone that uses the word Scientism other than in jest is a buffoon.

quote=Oxford English Dictionary
scientism, n.
2. A term applied (freq. in a derogatory manner)

<=== Derogatory mannor means as an attack on critical thinkers here. It's what I was referring to here: "Scientism" is a word made up by woo woo doctors to push a anti-science agenda.

Drawing from the general empiricism of the Enlightenment, scientism is most closely associated with the positivism of Auguste Comte (1798 1857), who held an extreme view of empiricism, insisting that true knowledge of the world arises only from perceptual experience. Comte criticized ungrounded speculations about phenomena that cannot be directly encountered by proper observation, analysis, and experiment. Such a doctrinaire stance associated with science leads to an abuse of reason that transforms a rational philosophy of science into an irrational dogma (Hayek 1952). It is this ideological dimension that is associated with the term scientism.

http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/scientism_este.html

"True knowledge comes from perceptual experience" That means what we know comes from what we've seen and experienced, which is how everyone knows most things. Thus the meaning is so diluted as to have no value as a descriptor.

Furthermore, this has got to be the least interesting topic (scientism) that I have ever written about in my entire life.