The dominance of a particular understanding of "the scientific method"—usually the hypothesis-experiment-conclusion model of textbook science—as the only legitimate path to reliable knowledge about anything. Under scientific method hegemony, this specific procedure is treated as universally applicable across all domains of inquiry, and any knowledge produced through other means (historical analysis, philosophical reasoning, artistic insight, lived experience) is automatically suspect. It's the assumption that if you can't test it in a lab, you can't really know it—a methodological imperialism that colonizes all other ways of understanding.
Example: "He demanded a double-blind study of whether his girlfriend loved him—scientific method hegemony so complete that he couldn't recognize knowledge gained through relationship as knowledge at all."
by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026
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