Sciencetard

A person who worships science, the scientific method, and peer reviewed research, to the extant that they've lost all ability to think rationally or with kindness and empathy. Violently hateful towards anyone who holds religious beliefs or anyone who doubts or questions widely pushed scientific theories.

Normal person: "God bless her, she will be in Heaven smiling down on us."
Redditor: "Sky daddy doesn't exist, she cannot smile because she is dead. Mourning death is a sign of low intelligence."
Normal person: "Shut up sciencetard."

Redditor: "Vaccines are so cool, trust the science bro. I've read all the peer reviewed research, my IQ is 200."
Normal person: "Why has all the research been funded by billionaires, big pharma, and governments?"
Redditor: "You're just too stupid to understand the scientific method and peer review. I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!"
Normal person: "Sciencetard."

by da gooose June 2, 2024

schieme

I don’t know if the definition is the name of my street Schieme Street that’s why I am coming to urban dictionary to see what it means. I’ve never heard of it.

this is the name of my street Schieme Street. I was just looking it up to see if I could figure out what the word meant. I’ve never heard of it before.

by anonymous June 8, 2024

science project

A complicated experiment-gone-awry "solution".

Several hours later, Jeff realized that his "5-minute solution" was quickly turning into a science project that would take several days of effort and lots of external resources (and that still might not solve the original problem).

by Jeff-fu June 10, 2024

science

the subject of fucking around and finding out

I'm going to my science class now

by 忍びのもの June 27, 2024

Scientific discrimination

Scientific discrimination, also referred to as evidence-based discrimination, scientific intolerance, scientific bigotry, evidence-based bigotry, scientific prejudice, evidence-based violence, and/or evidence-based violence, currently refers to a practice in online scientific communities, groups, and niches that consists of the selective use of science and evidence to justify discrimination, intolerance, prejudice, and violence against dissidents, people and groups with whom they disagree, or simply people who think differently or whose practices are deemed "unscientific," "relativistic," "postmodernist," "pseudoscientific," "parascientific," and the like. It is a fairly common practice in science communication groups and communities, and in places like popular social media platforms and YouTube video comments.

Previously, scientific discrimination was used to refer to scientific racism and discrimination against groups (women, minorities) within science itself, but today it is accepted as consensus that scientific discrimination also refers to the selective use of science and scientific evidence to justify discrimination, intolerance, prejudice, and related violence against dissident groups or groups with which those concerned disagree, such as religious people, spiritual people, people with spiritual experiences, theists, neurodivergent people, autistic people, political dissidents in Western countries, political dissidents in liberal democracies, and the like, as well as systemic violence against dissident practices such as psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, transpersonal psychology, humanistic psychology, holistic therapy, Marxism, socialism, communism, linguistic relativism, neuropsychorelativism, epistemological relativism, scientific relativism, critical theory, decolonial theory, queer theory, Voidpunk theory, Voidborne/Voidling theory, leftist theories, dynamic systems, complex systems, chaotic systems, and the like. In addition to using terms such as "relativist," "postmodernist," "denialist," "obscurantist," "delusional," "schizophrenic," "psychotic," "nonsense," "psychononsense," "charlatan," "pseudoscience," "pseudo-shaming," and the like to silence criticism and dissenting thought, even when they have sources and evidence to support them.

by AbzuInExile January 24, 2026

Scientific-Epistemological Realism

The belief that the entities, laws, and structures described by successful scientific theories (like electrons, natural selection, or gravitational waves) are real, mind-independent features of the world, and that science progressively uncovers this objective truth. Theories may change, but they converge on an accurate description of reality "as it is."

Example: A scientific-epistemological realism believes that DNA existed and carried genetic information long before humans discovered it. The shift from Newtonian physics to Einsteinian relativity wasn't a change of arbitrary stories, but a closer approximation to the actual fabric of spacetime. When physicists talk about the Higgs boson, they're not just describing a useful calculation tool; they believe it's a real particle their instruments actually detected.

by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Scientific-Epistemological Relativism

The view that scientific knowledge is not a discovery of a pre-existing reality, but a construction deeply influenced by social, cultural, and historical contexts. Scientific "facts" and even what counts as good evidence are relative to the prevailing paradigm, worldview, or community of scientists. Truth is made, not found.

Example: Thomas Kuhn's concept of "paradigm shifts" is a classic expression of Scientific-Epistemological Relativism. Before and after the Copernican Revolution, scientists lived in different intellectual worlds with different facts. A scientific-epistemological relativist argues that the "objective" evidence was interpreted through incompatible frameworks. Similarly, modern debates (like over certain sociological theories) often involve clashes between groups with fundamentally different epistemological standards for what constitutes valid evidence.

by Abzugal January 24, 2026