spalinns are not just hubris.
Perhaps hubris in science does go with arrogance and a certain naivete.
Take the example of behaviorist psychologists embracing the exclusions and strictures of logical positivism. Decades later we acknowledge that Pavlov's dogs and Skinner's pigeons were not automatons. Even lab rats left to their own devices revert to communal rat solutions to fascinating problems for any species living in colonies or in over-crowding or contending with other constraints. Perhaps what was missing was not a theory of consciousness so much as a theory of general anaethesia.
The belief in technique informed by science was certainly embraced by the American demagogues of the Technocracy movement and Stalin's technocrats. Only one had unfettered power for decades: the US Army Corps of Engineers was eventually restrained (in part through mandated peer review.)
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