Research Program / Claims / mass-beliefs-4
Science is becoming another dogma; its distortion of reality is as harmful as religion.
科学正变成另一种教条，其对现实的扭曲危害与宗教相当。
Concept mass beliefs · Domain Belief Dynamics and Mind–Body Regulation · ontological claim · interface 3/3 · testability 3/3 · status untested · ★ fundable
This program treats the Seth Material as a source of hypotheses, not as doctrine to be validated. Lead dossiers are AI-compiled from the corpus with a book-and-session citation after every statement; literature reviews are AI web-search summaries whose references were all DOI-verified against Crossref; the agenda draft is an AI synthesis. None of it is Seth's original text, and none of it represents scientific consensus. English fields are machine-translated; the Chinese text is authoritative.
Seth sources (book §session)
Adjudicating experiment
Define dogmatism as refusing to revise beliefs when confronted with equivalent counter-evidence, and limit harm to quantifiable losses from incorrect decisions; recruit 3000 researchers, religious professionals, and matched public across about 10 cultures; randomly alter the authoritative label of propositions (scientific, religious, or neutral) while keeping evidence and task content identical; measure update magnitude and decision losses, and follow up for 12 months; project duration 2 years. To determine whether it is becoming dogma, repeated sampling over at least 5 consecutive years is needed; overall historical harm cannot be adjudicated by a single experiment.
Suggested paper title
Authority Cues, Belief Updating, and Decision Costs Across Scientific and Religious Contexts
What it would overturn
There is no unified scientific hypothesis that must be overturned; if the pre-registered comparison holds, it would revise the testable institutional hypothesis that 'scientific norms can stably reduce authority bias and error costs under equivalent conditions'.
Candidate labs / funders
[Center for Open Science，元科学与科研实践研究](https://www.cos.io/research)
Specificity of Seth's formulation
Does not specify dogma, distortion, harm, comparison baselines, or time trends; less specific than existing metascience research.
Note
Repeated failures cannot be automatically attributed to dogma, and science's organized public replication efforts are themselves self-correction; both correction gains and error costs must be accounted for.
Evidence (1, DOI-verified via Crossref)
Cite: Future Mind Institute, Seth Material Research Agenda, claim mass-beliefs-4, https://www.seth.org.cn/en/research/claims/mass-beliefs-4