What do you call to a person who places dogmatic faith in the methods of science?
What is the agent noun (eg biologist for biology) corresponding to scientism? Here scientist would be confusing.
I'm looking for what I intuitively want to call "scientist", but that means the opposite of what I'm looking for.
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Though scientist is obviously the correct word, I doubt that's what you're looking for. Depending on the context, I occasionally use "empiricist", "positivist", "rationalist", or even (sadly) "verificationist" when I get tired of using "scientist."