When Science Becomes a Religion with @TheJollyHeretic
Alex Gallagher and evolutionary psychologist Edward Dutton argue, against the 'trust the scientific consensus' crowd, that modern academia has the epistemic structure of a church — status-seeking conformists displace truth-seeking geniuses, so appeals to consensus are religious appeals to a priesthood, not scientific arguments.
critical thinking · epistemology · evolution · genius vs conformity · knowledge-based sense · logical fallacies · philosophy of science · religious institutions · scientific methodology · spirituality · theism vs atheism
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