Sapiencism

The belief that intelligence or rationality determines moral worth, and therefore the right to exploit or kill those deemed to have less of it.

"Justifying eating animals because they're less intelligent is pure sapiencism."
"He's a sapiencist who hasn't even examined his own bias."
"That's a sapiencist argument, you just moved the goalposts from sentience to intelligence without admitting it."
"Dean's entire argument is sapiencism, he just won't admit it."

Sapiencism by Earthling Official July 19, 2026

sciencism

The world view that accepts conventional science as dogma.

When Ignatz said that the Big Bang Theory countered any notion of intelligent design, I replied that this was sciencism.

sciencism by MaskedAvatar May 27, 2018

sciencism

The inexpert, flawed and sometimes intentional misuse of scientific method to explain anecdotal evidence in order to foment fear of actual scientific discovery or progress and to promote confirmation bias contrary to fact.

Janet placed the key on her neck and said to inquiry panel members: "If the vaccine doesn't fill your body with magnetic crystals, then explain why this key sticks to my neck. Huh?" The key promptly falls off her neck. Janet does not realize that keys are generally brass and won't actually stick to a magnet because -- wait for it -- brass is not magnetic. The key sticks to Janet's neck at certain angles because of perspiration, similar to the spoon-on-the-nose trick kids do at Thanksgiving gatherings. Janet has resorted to sciencism to justify her reasoning for not trusting vaccination against the pandemic.

sciencism by Laughter On Water June 10, 2021

Anti-Sapienism 

When you take the sapien (wisdom) out of homo sapien, and are left with only homo.

Stupid shit like climate change denial, or any other extremist position, is anti-sapienism at its worst. All the far right and far left positions are just signs that the person espousing it is far from being straight. We're sending these niggers running for the hills.

Anti-Sapienism by Publius0987 August 4, 2025