Is Western culture balancing on a tightrope between science and humanities?

Pseudoscience is on the rise and so is the constant clamour of ‘fake news.’ Should we, therefore, be questioning the West’s grip on rational, empirical evidence-based reason? While the West is fending off resurgent claims of a flat Earth—last dispelled by Magellan and Elcano’s circumnavigation in the early 16th century—as well as persistent climate change deniers, Asia is making rapid technological and scientific progress.


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Source: Phys.org