William M Briggs (@TheFamedCelebrity)

One of the fundaments on which woke relies is utilitarianism, from which is derived scientism, the fallacy that Science has all answers.🧵 E.g.: it's right to maim a child to "transition" him because Science. We need to understand fully this mistake. On The Myths Of Scientism I was delighted to learn, via Hans Schantz’s Podcast: Sir Francis Bacon – Father of Scientism?, of the paper “The New Universal Church” by the late French mathematician Alexander Grothendieck. https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/on-the-myths-of-scientism