The
fear of
science, its process, its findings, its advocates, and/or its practitioners. May stem from the fear that a trusted preacher's made-up stories are in fact completely fictional and
useless in real life.
"He actually believes that the
earth is only 6000 years old, it is completely
flat, and evolution is just a theory without tons of supporting evidence?!"
"Yeah man, that dude is totally sciphobic. He'll fervently believe anything you tell him as if his life depended on it, as
long as you're wearing fancy robes, or you appear on Fox News, and you don't have a Ph.D."