Most people in our culture treat science like a walled city. The good, right-minded folk are on the inside, on the high ground. On the outside are pseudo-scientific barbarians who believe all sort of weird things.
I used to be on the inside. I was into science and technology. It was my profession. I even enjoyed making fun of those pseudo-scientific barbarians from time to time, feeling clever and smug. But that was before I got mixed up in homeopathy. Now I’m on the outside. In woo-woo land.
Except that I’m still into science and technology. But from the outside I learned something about science: we treat it like a religion in our society. That metaphorical wall that keeps the barbarians out isn’t science, it’s scientism, the religion of materialistic science. According to that religion, if it isn’t objectively measurable, if it can’t be broken down into component pieces, then it isn’t science. I find that assumption to be, well, unscientific. The high priests of scientism say, “You don’t know the mechanism of action for homeopathic remedies? Then it’s obviously a lot of bunk.” That’s not good science in my book.
When I became a homeopath I didn’t abandon science, but I … (more)
