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."