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Science functions as the dominant global belief system, with experts acting as priests and enforcing orthodoxy.
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science as religion
Science functions as the dominant global belief system, with experts acting as priests and enforcing orthodoxy.
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Science treated not as neutral method but as the modern authority system people obey.
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A provocative claim that science is also an imaginative, evidence-bearing understanding of the world descended from religion.
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Science became the dominant global religion under Pax Americana, with scientists acting as transnational priests loyal to an international brotherhood controlled by the American empire.
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"And the third is what we call the rules -based international order. And what this means is American power hid behind multilateral organizations such..."
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"And this shows you how science has become the new religion of the world. And if you think about it, the scientists that run..."
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"I said to my friends who are Chinese and American. I said, you know, vaccines used to take about 10 years to develop. And..."
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"Now we live in a world where the religion is science. Science is basically religion. So why do we make the transition? What's the..."
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"So in number two, who has authority? Who do you listen to? You listen to scientists, right? Scientists. Because this system was created by..."
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"Furthermore it was less important to succeed than to dare. The fact that we try is what's important. What has what was essential was..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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