Scientism
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Scientism is the opinion that Science is the only source of knowledge) or weak (Science s) or broad (all Sciences or at least not only the natural Sciences) they are.}}</ref>
While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars (and subsequently many others) also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural Science s, and the humanities)".[1]