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 ...

In the fast-moving circle of knowledge, two opposite perspectives have come into power for viewing reality: scientism and anti-scientism. Although both deal with the investigation of truth ...

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 ...