A very faint whiff, depending on how it was intended.
What I saw was a request for example / explanation.
Much like my request, for examples of these scientismists.
Who would deny that there may be such? You know
there's worse, and crazier.
I'd like to know about them. If I, others are taking a
profoundly, life and earth threateningly wrong approach
to grasping the nature of reality, I would surely like
to know.
I tend to think in terms of examples. That is certainly
how things are donein law. I can understand things that way.
All I got was something to the effect that they are
everywhere, and I must be dumb if I cannot see them.
From following the topic I get the idea that our friend
believes he, and perhaps some few followers, have
achieved a level of understanding denied to the
"Scientism(ists)".
I also get the impression that he has had to concoct a group
of people and their way of thinking, in order to contrast his
Enlightenment to those benighted materialists / scientism(ists).
A lot of psychological projection is all that is, imo.
The refusal to provide even one (1) actual example from the
purported multitude stands as pretty good evidence, of a
material sort, that there are no examples to give.
There's more to observe, but let it fade away, it seems
there is no there there.