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A more extreme form of scientific supremacism, where scientism (the belief that science is the only legitimate source of knowledge) is combined with a supremacist attitude: science and its adherents are not just better but inherently superior to all other ways of knowing and to those who practice them. Scientistic supremacism often includes contempt for philosophy, humanities, religion, and indigenous knowledge, and it justifies the marginalization or even erasure of those who do not conform. It is colonialism in epistemological form.
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