Re: CHAT: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Matt Pearson wrote:

> Well, there's Christian Science, the Church of Religious Science,
> and Scientology (all of them radically different from each other! :-))
> I've never heard the term "Scientism" applied to any of those, though.
Lower-case "scientism" is treating the content or the methodology
of science as if it were a revealed religion.  http://www.m-w.com says:

# an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science
# applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social
# sciences, and the humanities).

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