Scientific Positivism Comte: Scientism, Scientific positivismComte: Scientism, Scientific positivism –Science (empirical data) is the only source of knowledge –Progress is infinite –No limits to research, technological imperative Stem-Cell Hypocrisy: The Christian right's wrongheaded invocation of religion to restrict stem-cell research ranks up there with the medieval sanctioning of Galileo because his scientific views conflicted with church doctrine. – Newsweek 5/27/2005Stem-Cell Hypocrisy: The Christian right's wrongheaded invocation of religion to restrict stem-cell research ranks up there with the medieval sanctioning of Galileo because his scientific views conflicted with church doctrine. – Newsweek 5/27/2005