tendencies to literalise and scorn science

• One strong tendency of the vocational schools was to literalise with the scientific information about anatomy and physiology … Another tendency was to go completely the other way and to scorn medical scientific information in favor of the internal, psychological, and subjective aspects of the body. This is a frequent reflex of our students under the first impact of the body epiphany, or faculty who are determined to avoid being taken over by a narrow scientific viewpoint.
• factual history claims literal truth
• the mistake of historical literalism
• theory of reality in holographic universe
• intellectual orthodoxy of science
• scientism mimetic game

linked mentions for "tendencies to literalise and scorn science":

1. six filters for truth personal experience
   (Human perceptions are iffy.) Experience of people you know (Even more unreliable.) Experts (They work for money, not truth.) Scientific studies
   
2. intellectual orthodoxy of science
   Willis Harman had a particular interest in the relationship between matter and consciousness, he was one of several prestigious Stanford scientists