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Nov 10Liked by Emmet Penney

I loved the point about how science and scientism come together as a package. This has major echoes of gilded age progressivism with eugenics being the scientism all while real actual scientific progress was occurring. Also to modern things like climate change and the whole new atheism movement that are somewhat science based but also trying to claim way too much.

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Absolutely!!

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