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> This why the US hegemony is so crucial, it is a counter balance to all of this non sense... I moved to the states at 13 and I have been here for the last 17 years.

Did you study US history? It's riddled with countless examples of when US hegemony has done the exact opposite. Middle East, Latin America, etc. (This is not a comment on US/Western values... Because I'd say a lot of US interventions around the world haven't exactly been congruent with those values).

So the point I'm trying to make is, for folks who are from other parts of the world but moved to the US (I also grew up in the Middle East), western values may seem great if _you live in the west_.

But if you still live in those other parts of the world, US hegemony may have been net negative for you.

Wtf are you talking about? Read the article. Islam isn't backwards and there is something in the world beyond reason and logic. Many devout Muslims in the US are themselves doctors.

If you read the article you'd see that political decline of a united empire is one of the largest factors leading to loss of scientific output. Scientific output is expensive, requires stability, etc.

There are people of all stripes and beliefs who think "healing" is something non-scientific. It has nothing to do with religion. Look at the resurgence of crystals, herbal healing, other forms of crockery in the US itself!

That's all fine. But the article isn't about the current state of any part of the Arabic world. It's a guess at the historical process by which science became less significant in the Arab world, something that happened centuries before you were born. You may well have grown up with the implications of that, but that's not what TFA was about.

Ok I see what you mean and maybe I should’ve paid a bit more attention to the specifics, but I still stand by my original comment.

Stop deleting your comments. It vandalizes the thread.

> Ok I see what you mean and maybe I should’ve paid a bit more attention to the specifics, but I still stand by my original comment.

Interesting definition of "stand by" you have there, since you replaced everything else with "-".

Admittedly it’s a topic I shouldn’t have really touched on and me deleting the comment doesn’t mean I don’t stand by it I just regret expressing the opinion publicly. I’m sure the original comments are already archived somewhere since this made front page, anyone should be able to find them if they really want to.

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