Meaning of scientocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An elite community of scientists.
   countable, uncountable
2. The practice of basing public policies on science.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a novus homo must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run⟳ himself rashly against vested interests.”

“It could only appear⟳ through some dictatorial coup d'etat by a future scientocracy.”

“the roots of which lie⟳ in the curious marriage of the prohibitionist spirit and the new scientocracies that govern our lives.”

“When I talk⟳ about Scientocracy, then, I'm not talking about a world ruled by behavioral scientists, or any other kind of scientists. Instead, I am imagining a government of the people, but informed by scientists.”

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