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Prejudice and discrimination justified by appeals to “science,” where scientific authority is weaponized to demean, exclude, or pathologize people whose beliefs, practices, or identities fall outside a narrow materialist worldview. Unlike legitimate scientific critique, scientific bigotry targets individuals rather than ideas, using labels like “unscientific,” “irrational,” or “delusional” to silence rather than engage. It often ignores that science itself is a human activity, not a moral tribunal. Scientific bigotry flourishes in online skeptic communities, where calling something “pseudoscience” becomes a substitute for argument, and where believers in anything non‑material are treated as cognitively deficient or morally suspect.
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