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A form of scientism that is explicitly ideological: the belief that science (as defined by one’s own community) is the only legitimate path to knowledge, combined with the use of that belief to dismiss, attack, or exclude other ways of knowing. Ideoscientism goes beyond methodological naturalism; it is a political stance that weaponizes “science” against religion, spirituality, indigenous knowledge, and even philosophy. It often masquerades as a defense of reason, but its primary function is to enforce a narrow, materialist orthodoxy.
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