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Lol, I love when the woo community can't argue in good faith, so have to artificially drag science to their level by calling it "scientism".
Magic isn't real because you can't prove it's real, and science isn't opposed to magic, because magic isn't on the playing board.
I'm a degree-holding job-working scientist and I love science. I also love magic. Magic can be proven. Scientists have published hundreds of papers on the powerful placebo effect, also known as magic. Don't tell me you're going to deny the existence of the placebo effect?
Scientism is the dogmatic belief that empirical science is the only source of knowledge. It's not arguing in bad faith to say that this is a dangerously flawed ideology.
The inconvenient truth about scientific research is thatย ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ข ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง-๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. Informationย requires a metaphysical framework in order to be interpreted in way that makes sense.
Lacking a philosophical foundation, scientism produces dangerous results, like when Hitler and his ilk explicitly referred to Darwinism as their justification for the Holocaust.