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The belief that science is not merely a powerful method for understanding the natural world, but the supreme, only legitimate form of knowledge, and that those who disagree are intellectually inferior. Scientific supremacism elevates science to an absolute authority, ranking it above philosophy, art, religion, tradition, and personal experience. It often comes with a missionary zeal to "enlighten" the uneducated masses. This ideology is not science itself but a political stance that uses science's prestige to dominate other ways of knowing. It is the epistemological equivalent of racial supremacy: one way is held to be inherently superior, and others are deemed primitive or pathological.
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