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A more aggressive form of scientific defaultism, explicitly grounded in scientism—the belief that science is the only source of real knowledge and that other disciplines (philosophy, history, art) are at best decorative. Scientistic defaultism treats any claim not empirically verifiable as meaningless or irrational, and it actively campaigns to replace non‑scientific modes of inquiry with scientific ones. It is common in online debates where participants declare that “philosophy is dead” or that “the humanities are useless.” The defaultism lies in treating a philosophical position (scientism) as if it were a neutral, obvious starting point.
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