neville park> The precept that society should be based on reason, facts and universal truths has been a guiding theme of modern times...Yet Occam’s razor is double edged. Enlightenment values have accommodated screechingly discordant beliefs, such as that all men are created equal, that aristocrats should be decapitated and that people can be traded as chattel.
In _Nature_, Nathaniel Comfort writes about how science and scient*ism* have shaped our sense of self for 150 years: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03014-4
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