Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion

What a awful, sloppy article.

> Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt

No, being a scientist requires identifying uncertainty, investigating mystery, and doubting results until they are sufficiently repeated.

> scientism: the notion that science has exclusive access to the truth

You can of course discover/reveal "truths" (facts!) without the science but these can be tested/confirmed via the scientific method.

> dismissingly brands Shakespeare and Chekhov as without intellectual value

This is a seriously disingenuous attack on the unnamed researcher who almost certainly isn't counting the humanities amongst his targets.

> Science wouldn’t appear so harshly incompatible with spirituality.

Ah! The hidden agenda, finally.