I'm using "ideology" in the sense that Webster's defines it: "a systematic body of concepts, esp. about human life or culture." Science isn't just an objective fact-gathering mechanism; it purports to establish a rational basis for ordering human existence and serving *all* the needs of communities, and it is inadequate to that task. My criticism is rooted in the view that (if I recall the author and title correctly) Yale historian Carl Becker argued in "The Heavenly City of 18th Century Philosophers" -- that science ultimately presents a spiritually unsatisfying view of the world because its knowledge is so fractionated and accessible only to specialists, whose work becomes more and more unintelligible to one another, not to mention to the lay public.
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