Was That Anti-Scientism Article in Nature Just a Fancy Rant or Some Real Breakthrough Stuff?
I’m afraid it was a missed opportunity.
Let's applaud the Johns Hopkins science historian, Nathaniel Comfort, for testing out the tires--and carburetor--of his new tenureship and publishing a piece on scientism. And in one of science’s top journals at that. Obviously Comfort touched a nerve, generating a wave of reaction on Twitter, including a rebuke from the top celebrity Enlightenment fundamentalist evangelist, Steven Pinker.
