The Marxinomicon.
It is becoming increasingly clear to me that science is becoming a priesthood with a creed. If you are going to pursue a career in science you have to be very very cautious not to embrace a heresy. There's all sorts of things we know are not true, but unless you embrace these things you will find yourself career limited. Things that are not really empirically validated but offer the appearance of it, abound. Up until the middle of last century science relied heavily on empirical validation but in recent politics, it's a whole different world. “As we now knowism” rules the day. Unless you realize that it's now a priesthood or religion, with it's own boundaries of behavior and beliefs, you won't be able to properly grasp what you're observing. There's a big difference between a true scientist and those who call themselves scientists who spend their time fighting the politics of peer reviewed journals and participating in other developing 'good old boy' filters such as vying for pavlovian funding in order to rise in the priesthood. A particular pseudo science I find very distressing is psychiatry. A field where many of the sickest and most confused among us become what amounts to self appointed sorcerers diagnosing people out of a book of disorders agreed upon by committee, predicated on their own twisted opinions about how people OUGHT to be, based on their own electrochemically, serotonin re-uptake inhibited 'trip' through an ideologically warped, self congratulatory academic seminary. When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. When you're a psychiatrist everything looks like a diagnosis. I'm waiting for the day that, as a result of pavlovian funding, they will vote to include scientific heretics in their great book of disorders. The Marxinomicon.