Science Religion and Dogma

I ran across an article the other day where the writer quoted Physicist Beverly Rubik Ph.D., Director of the Center for Frontier Sciences at Temple University in Philadelphia. I liked what she had to say and thought it pertained to our discussions on homeopathy:

“Perhaps the greatest obstacle that frontier scientists are unprepared for but inevitably face is political – the tendency for human systems to resist change, to resist the impact of new discoveries, especially those that challenge the status quo of the scientific establishment …
… “Science” has become institutionalized and is largely regulated by an establishment community that governs and maintains itself … In recent times there has been a narrowing of perspectives resulting in a growing dogmatism, a dogmatic scientism. There is arrogance bordering on worship of contemporary scientific concepts and models … taught in our schools in a deadening way which only serves to perpetrate the dogma …
Strangely, the contemporary scientific establishment has taken on the behavior of one of its early oppressors: the church. Priests in white lab coats work in glass-and-steel cathedral-like laboratories, under the rule of bishops and cardinals who maintain orthodoxy through mainstream “peer review”.”

It is interesting that she makes a religious analogy when so very often the critics of homeopathy suggest that adhering to Hahnemann’s teachings smacks of religious dogma. Maybe their accusations are projection.