“Bless your heart, you don’t know the difference between science and scientism.”
Apparently you don’t either.
Hayek’s 1952 “The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason” is a book length criticism of scientism that popularized the term.
Scientism is a pretence that the tools and methods of hard science can transfer to the social sciences. The Flat Earth debate is entirely within the field of the hard sciences. It’s a question of measurement, not epistemology.
And gay used to mean happy, not homosexual.