1. Scientism
The mistaken view that the scientific method is the only pathway to true knowledge and the only source of valid assertions about what is real
2. Relativism; Nihilism
The denial that there exists any objective basis for differentiating between what is true and what is false, and between what is good and what is bad
3. Knowledge = Power
The pursuit of power instead of knowledge as the primary goal of science (related to science as “the magician’s twin”, as noted by CS Lewis et al.)
4. Scientific Experts = the secular, technocratic “priesthood”
Unreflecting, knee-jerk, and/or naive confidence in various claims simply because they are made by “scientists”; science over-valued to such a degree that it becomes, in effect, a religion
5. Transhumanism
Scientific and/or pseudo-scientific theories and practices that tend to undermine or eliminate characteristic features of the human race, with an implicit or explicit intention of replacing humanity with something else altogether (e.g., “gods”, machines, immortal “god-machines”, etc.) – also “post-humanism”
6. Anti-humanism
Implicitly or explicitly elitist scientific and/or pseudo-scientific theories and practices that deny human dignity, value, and agency
7. Standardized Institutional Corruption & Incompetence
The co-opting of scientific research by “the military-industrial complex” and the related tendency to design studies in order to generate desired outcomes, in order to serve the interests of corporate, political, and military masters, thereby securing funding for research; in addition, the corruption of science by all-too-human pride, careerism, etc:
“I know that most men, including those at ease with the problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.” (Tolstoy)
Mad Science In The Mirror of Art 