[coeneedell]

Well okay, but when the scientific method produces knowledge, the voracity of that knowledge can be checked by an observer. When a mystic convinces a large number of people that their opinions are in fact, truths, that is not a process that can be checked by an observer, and the “knowledge” produced has nothing tying itself back to reality.

[justinmcp]

The process cant, but the knowledge can be. You seem to be arguing against dogma, not a mythopeotic view. And fair call, religious power structures do a lot of harm.

[coeneedell]

The “large number of people” could be a full on religious dogma, but it could also be a smallish cult out in the hinterlands.

[quinnjh]

How do corporations forecast the future?

[lmm]

Poorly, on the whole.