[Spartacus: if I have misrepresented any of your points, please correct.]
No need to worry that you got it wrong. This is pretty much exactly what I meant by it, yes. And you are correct that a lot of my articles are written largely from an American perspective and represent my own cultural biases in that regard. However, I'm seeing this same pattern everywhere, globally.
We are being commanded by our governments to place our faith in national institutions that have been superseded by supranational institutions, or hollowed out and stripped of their ability to regulate anything at all. Scientism goes hand-in-hand with technocracy and corporatocracy. They all enable each other in a synergistic way; private industry, in the aggregate, provides a huge portion of R&D funding that scientists rely on, so scientists end up politically-motivated and disinterested in truth if it risks cutting off their funding. The Government research funding sources are closely associated with private industry and private research institutes, too. The NIH, FDA, USDA, and the pharmaceutical giants and agribusinesses are all joined at the hip, just like the Pentagon and their think tanks are joined at the hip with the defense industry, and how the Federal Reserve is joined at the hip with private banks. Basically, the distinctions between the private and public sectors are blurring to an upsetting degree, to the point where there aren't any checks on corporate power any longer.
[Spartacus: if I have misrepresented any of your points, please correct.]
No need to worry that you got it wrong. This is pretty much exactly what I meant by it, yes. And you are correct that a lot of my articles are written largely from an American perspective and represent my own cultural biases in that regard. However, I'm seeing this same pattern everywhere, globally.
We are being commanded by our governments to place our faith in national institutions that have been superseded by supranational institutions, or hollowed out and stripped of their ability to regulate anything at all. Scientism goes hand-in-hand with technocracy and corporatocracy. They all enable each other in a synergistic way; private industry, in the aggregate, provides a huge portion of R&D funding that scientists rely on, so scientists end up politically-motivated and disinterested in truth if it risks cutting off their funding. The Government research funding sources are closely associated with private industry and private research institutes, too. The NIH, FDA, USDA, and the pharmaceutical giants and agribusinesses are all joined at the hip, just like the Pentagon and their think tanks are joined at the hip with the defense industry, and how the Federal Reserve is joined at the hip with private banks. Basically, the distinctions between the private and public sectors are blurring to an upsetting degree, to the point where there aren't any checks on corporate power any longer.