Scientism is a term used, usually pejoratively, to refer to belief in the universal applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview or most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints. Go To Site

Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats who feel entitled to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking.

  They can’t tell science from scientism — in fact in their image-oriented minds scientism looks more scientific than real science.

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb Go To Site