Science is not something that needs defending. It is like truth: it is its own defence. Scienidolatory, like Scientology, is a series of faulty and flawed beliefs that does need defending.
Consider this tweet for science day. There are some errors.
This started with me reading via Vox a post by ESR on Lambda. Lambda is a conference on functional programming. Which I know nothing about. What I do know is that Curtis, who used to be Moldbug (but I think he got bored with political nerds) wrote 
There is a convergence that occurs in liberal theology, and it is unitarian on a good day. For the liberal sees church as a religion. And religions lead to death. We cannot earn our way into the heavenly gates. All the tweets about there being a good…
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