Word: scientism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
...third group attacks sociobiology as scientism. They believe that Wilson has overextended the powers of science into areas where it has no business treading. They hold that human behavior and culture can never be reduced to biological terms, and that Wilson's attempt is impotent because culture must be approached at a different level with different principles and models. Value systems will never be fashioned by reconstructing the evolution of the mind or defining the neurochemical responses of the brain...