{"id":631017,"date":"2019-09-17T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=631017"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:07:41","slug":"is-western-culture-balancing-on-a-tightrope-between-science-and-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=631017","title":{"rendered":"Is Western culture balancing on a tightrope between science and humanities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudoscience is on the rise and so is the constant clamour of &#8216;fake news.&#8217; Should we, therefore, be questioning the West&#8217;s grip on rational, empirical evidence-based reason? While the West is fending off resurgent claims of a flat Earth\u2014last dispelled by Magellan and Elcano&#8217;s circumnavigation in the early 16th century\u2014as well as persistent climate change deniers, Asia is making rapid technological and scientific progress.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-western-culture-tightrope-science-humanities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Is Western culture balancing on a tightrope between science and humanities?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudoscience is on the rise and so is the constant clamour of &#8216;fake news.&#8217; Should we, therefore, be questioning the West&#8217;s grip on rational, empirical evidence-based reason? While the West&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}