Scientism takes the form of a political initiative to extend scientific methods to all aspects of collective living and to make politics partake of the putative innate impartiality, rationality, and corresponding sense of truthfulness of scientific insight, without recognising the intertemporal failures of science between cycles of research programmes to reach a state of satisfactory intermediate certitude. Scientism can only see other forms of acquiring knowledge as imperfect, because it juxtaposes them with an idealised version of science; a science where there are no cycles of revaluation and reconsideration of existing findings or where those are somehow not relevant to the claim that at any given moment science presents the truth.