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How Science Functions Like a Religion

Atheists claim that science is not a religion, and of course it is not. Science, properly understood, is simply a method of investigation. But science properly understood is a rarity these days. It is far more often the case that science is not properly understood at all.

Take the example of the medications being sold for fictional psychological conditions like "social anxiety disorder." It is not a "disorder" to have social anxiety in a society where everyone is judged on status and their physical appearance. Nor is a disorder to have such anxiety when your entire social life hangs by a thread, such that one wrong comment, one embarrassing picture, one single moment, can end up destroying your whole economic future in an instant, thanks to social media.

Add to this the constant bombardment of images of photo shopped celebrities who are so rich and leisurely they can afford to have plastic surgery for lunch and botox for dinner twice a week, even throwing a party to do so in fact, even as the majority of the population suffers from obesity, and we discover that the entire fraud of "social anxiety disorder" is in fact nothing more than a marketing ploy to sell drugs.

In this way, science - or what should properly be called "pseudo-science" - is used like a religion to sell snake oil to make a profit, even if it kills people.

Amen to the almighty dollar, thy divine will be done, on earth as it is on TV.

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