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David Stockman on Scientism and the New Road to Serfdom

On February 16, 2022February 15, 2022By Fast Rope

by David Stockman via International Man It’s long past time for conservative folks to wake up. Today’s great threat to capitalist prosperity, personal liberty and constitutional government as we have known it is not Marxism, socialism or any other variant of traditional left-wing ideology. The real threat to liberty is more generic. Rather than a […]

What Does It Mean to ‘Trust the Science’?

On September 25, 2021September 28, 2021By Fast Rope

If someone ever tells me to “trust the science” or the “science is settled,” I become instantly leery. This sounds a lot like what the great Murray Rothbard referred to as scientism, not science. Rothbard elaborates, Scientism is the profoundly unscientific attempt to transfer uncritically the methodology of the physical sciences to the study of […]