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A radical, dogmatic offshoot of logical positivism, widespread in online debates and militant science communication. It applies verifiability and falsification in an absolute, unyielding way, dismissing as “meaningless” or “pseudoscience” anything that does not fit the methods of the natural sciences—including continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, Marxism, theology, spirituality, and qualitative humanities. Unlike historical neopositivism, this variant is aggressively sarcastic and acts as a self‑appointed “gatekeeper of reason” on social media. It wields the Formal Guillotine: a rigid separation of empirical facts and formal logic from any social, historical, or political context. Any mention of context is instantly labelled “relativism” or “postmodernism.” Its proponents often combine militant neo‑atheism (calling religion “delusion” or “charlatanism”) with epistemological anti‑communism (dismissing Marxism as pseudoscience while naturalising capitalism). In practice, it is less a coherent philosophy than a rhetorical debate‑stopper: “Where’s the double‑blind evidence?” “That’s not falsifiable, therefore it’s nonsense.” Hard‑narrow neopositivism mistakes its own metaphysical stance for science itself.

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