Climate Watch: Scientism’s Skeptics

“Scientism is the quasi-religious devotion to the idea, but not the content, of science. Like all things ersatz, it is meant for the naïve.

I came across an almost touching display of incredulity in the Washington Post last week from a blogger who couldn’t believe that The Way of Science could ever lead to error and misery.

The issue was Bret Stephens’ first column since moving from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times, a witty bit of climate skepticism that provoked a frenzy of subscription-canceling.

“Claiming total certainty about the science traduces the spirit of science,” Stephens wrote…

Click HERE for the rest of this eye-opening column by Jon Cassidy on the fallibility of the human species; especially as it relates to science.

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