{"id":91563,"date":"2019-06-03T02:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/science-was-never-unique-to-the-west"},"modified":"2019-06-03T02:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:02:40","slug":"science-was-never-unique-to-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/science-was-never-unique-to-the-west","title":{"rendered":"Science Was Never Unique to the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-was-never-unique-to-the-west2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pugnacious antipathy toward scientists, research funding and universities threatens to undercut the very advantages that have made the U.S. such a dominant technological power over the last century. Just as Hasan Ibn al-Haytham\u2019s achievements draw a sharp contrast with the Middle East\u2019s current lagging position in science, sepia-colored nostalgia for Isaac Newton will ring bitterly hollow if the West turns away from Newton\u2019s legacy. A civilization is only as great as its last failure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s absurd to claim otherwise \u2014 especially now, as America turns away from Newton\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-05-30\/america-is-forgetting-the-value-of-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pugnacious antipathy toward scientists, research funding and universities threatens to undercut the very advantages that have made the U.S. such a dominant technological power over the last century. Just as Hasan Ibn al-Haytham\u2019s achievements draw a sharp contrast with the Middle East\u2019s current lagging position in science, sepia-colored nostalgia for Isaac Newton will ring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}