Celebrity scientists aren't deified... in fact, they have a tough life because people assume they're all knowing. Look at our man Neil DeGrasse who called a Bull a Cow because where he lives in NYC everything is a cow and he got ripped by other scientists for being stupid.
There is no universality to people period... i'm not sure why you feel its important to label some as "scientism" when there is no such thing as "scientism" with any universality.
Feynman said something like true science is not believing anything you hear and something you have to experience. If you believe anything without doing the work then you’re cargo culting science which is deifying it.
Scientists aren't deified because people assume they're all knowing?
As for scientism, there's a lot of people in this thread who essentially said "We could have known it wouldn't work by basic application of conservation of momentum". Or some other principal held to the standard of absolute truth.
Our knowledge of the world is faulty and incomplete. All scientific knowledge is subject to tweaking or replacement based on experimental evidence. Not the other way around.
We have models and guesses of how the world works, we don't have its source code.
Actually the whole point why this EM drive is interesting actually is that the measurements contradicted conservation of momentum. Otherwise having a small effect not contradicting any established physics is basically worthless.
Sure, but if the contradiction bore out, then what's false (at least in some edge cases) is established physics not the experiment result.
The strength of the established physics just means that there is an extremely high chance that the EM drive is experimental error, especially with the small effect size, rather than something novel.
Celebrity scientists aren't deified... in fact, they have a tough life because people assume they're all knowing. Look at our man Neil DeGrasse who called a Bull a Cow because where he lives in NYC everything is a cow and he got ripped by other scientists for being stupid.
There is no universality to people period... i'm not sure why you feel its important to label some as "scientism" when there is no such thing as "scientism" with any universality.