Why you must be logical and scientific to be a good person

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Why you must be logical and scientific to be a good person

In their cloistered and ancient buildings, academics are in the middle of a war. There’s always some kind of war going on in universities. In the European Middle Ages, it was between orthodoxy and heresy. In the Enlightenment, it was between the rationalists and the empiricists. But today, one of the sharpest battle lines is between the scientistic and the rest. Being “scientistic” is different from being a scientist. A scientist is just someone…