The crisis of scientific integrity
The flight from reason straddles obvious divisions. This is how modernity unravels
The hallmark of western modernity has been its veneration of science. With the progressive erosion of religious faith and the corresponding belief that materialism defines existence, science came to stand proxy for rationality, objectivity and truth.
This belief is now under siege. It’s no exaggeration to say that science is i…
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