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→Debunking Scientism: ipse dixit
* If somebody something shows (''"They showed that"''), then the terms like ''"it might be theoretically possible"'' and conditional sentence ''"if it can be"'' become surplus. On the other hand, if it is not sure ''"if it can be"'' or not, then the expression ''"They showed"'' is clearly a [[lie]].
* If somebody something shows (''"They showed that"''), then the terms like ''"it might be theoretically possible"'' and conditional sentence ''"if it can be"'' become surplus. On the other hand, if it is not sure ''"if it can be"'' or not, then the expression ''"They showed"'' is clearly a [[lie]].
* Ad. ''"The answer is a definite maybe."'' In fact, ''"a definite maybe"'' is not answer at all, it leaves question undecided, in the same status as before asking.
* Ad. ''"The answer is a definite maybe."'' In fact, ''"a definite maybe"'' is not answer at all, it leaves question undecided, in the same status as before asking.
=== [[Ipse dixit]] camouflaged as "[[scientific consensus]]" ===
In his 1615 Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, [[Galileo]] complained about "academic philosophers" and "no small number of professors" who were opposing his novel discoveries just because these discoveries were in contradiction to the physical notions of the Aristotelian and Ptolemaic world system commonly held in academies of that time. Galileo portrays these academicians and professors as hurling various charges, publishing "numerous writings filled with vain arguments", and as "resolved to fabricate a shield for their fallacies out of the mantle of pretended religion and the authority of the [[Bible]]."<ref name="LetterToChristina">{{cite web
|url = http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/galileo-tuscany.asp
|title = Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 (Modern History Sourcebook)
|accessdate = 16 Feb 2012
|author = Galileo Galilei
|publisher = Fordham University
|location = New York
}}</ref> This approach when wider scientific community refuses to accept [[scientific observation]](s) or argument(s) with appeal to so called [[scientific consensus]] was further adopted in [[evolutionism]] and it can be classified as form of [[ipse dixit]] fallacy. It is another trait helpful in identifying scientism and distinguishing it from a science. For example, the typical usage can be demonstrated in claim: ''"NPR featured Wyler for being ex-gay and allowed him to testify about all the promise he believes [[reparative therapy]] offers to people not happy with their [[same-sex attraction]]s, despite the fact that there is [[scientific consensus]] that ex-gay therapy is harmful and ineffective."''<ref>{{cite web |title=NPR’s Featured ‘Ex-Gay’ Guest Commits Over $200,000 To Dangerous, Unscientific Ex-Gay ‘Coachings’ |author=Zack Ford |publisher=ThinkProgress |date=3 Aug 2011 |url=https://thinkprogress.org/nprs-featured-ex-gay-guest-commits-over-200-000-to-dangerous-unscientific-ex-gay-coachings-3afcbd21b4bb/ |accessdate=10 Dec 2017 |quote=National Public Radio has yet to apologize for the platform it provided Rich Wyler on Monday to spout as many lies about sexual orientation as he could fit into the segment. NPR featured Wyler for being ex-gay and allowed him to testify about all the promise he believes reparative therapy offers to people not happy with their same-sex attractions, despite the fact that there is scientific consensus that ex-gay therapy is harmful and ineffective. But NPR made another big journalistic mistake besides its inappropriate framing of ex-gay therapy — the story neglected to mention that Wyler makes his entire living off of providing ex-gay therapy to vulnerable and insecure men he convinces to try to change.}}</ref> Even if the [[militant gays]] do not like some people like ex-homosexuals who left the homosexual lifestyle, they cannot get rid of the physical notions of their existence just by spreading the numerous writings filled with vain arguments such as fallacious [[ipse dixit]] one (e.g. ''"there is scientific consensus that ex-gay therapy is harmful and ineffective"'') and by hurling various charges (e.g. ''"NPR featured Wyler for being ex-gay and allowed him to testify about all the promise he believes [[reparative therapy]] offers to people not happy with their [[same-sex attraction]]s"'').
== See also ==
== See also ==