The scientocracy C. S. Lewis feared is seriously being considered by left-leaning, abortion-promoting scientism communities.
“Time for science to seize political power” blazes a headline on New Scientistby Michael Brooks.
In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its policieson carefully gathered scientific evidence? One that publishes the rationale behind its decisions, complete with data, analysis and supporting arguments? Well, dream no longer: that’s where the UK is heading.
But why would they need to “seize” political power instead of use the methods of democracy? Brooks used the either-or and loaded-words tactics of portraying anything but scientocracy as “hunch-based politics,” failing to define evidence in “scientific evidence,” a philosophically vexed notion. His description of science fits the classic definition of scientism: the belief that the scientific method is the only sure pathway to truth.