Ask HN: Anyone interested in a scientistic content platform?

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I’ve been asked to consider setting up a scientistic content platform. Is this something worth the hassle, in your opinion? We are thinking of social problems and a spectre of hard solutions, but the internet is full of sects already and we really do not need to entertain nutters, dystopian nerds and extremists. Thanks.

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Isn't "scientism" a bit like "Scientology"? "Scientific" is a real thing, but "Scientism" is a quasi-religious belief in science.

On the incel wiki they write in the same sociological tone pioneered by Emilie Durkheim's book on Suicide that since been echoed by C. Wright Mills, Erving Goffman, Diane Vaughn, and many others. Gradually they go over the deep end and call into the question if language is useful at all in understanding our experience. (e.g. the idea of a "dogpill theorist" effaces the idea of "theory".)

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