Although not perfect, China’s several millennia-long governance systems – a mix of Confucianism and Legalism – were quite effective in governing a vast territory which included a large, complex and diverse population. Since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, the...
I grant that one might contend that, say, prayer was superior to cognitive therapy “for me” or “for you,” if my reasons for saying this were based upon some accident of our history. But the claim of [generic, western] “science” is that, accidents aside, and accounting for them,...