I’ve mentioned a few times that this wave of dissident “intellectuals” absorbed their epistemic framework from Dawkins/Hitchens and the rest of the “Well, who designed the designer?” crowd. All the “based” conservative accounts on here seem to presuppose naive versions of scientism or positivism. I share many empirical conclusions with the “new conservatives,” but they have 0 understanding of issues in epistemology/philosophy of science. When they hear those terms, they knock on the nearest concrete object and assert “I believe in the real world. Science has taken us into space, not philosophizing” or some such nonsense lol. They are thoroughly confused and cannot see that they are using the exclusive epistemic aims/success of a narrow range of scientific inquiry to evaluate the utility and productivity of other fields. Schmid would run circles around Hanania on critical thinking & applied reasoning.