[Smellyoldgit]

lostsheep wrote

Basically, a scientifically literate and critically thinking population is a threat to the current power structure. However I have discovered that resistance is futile.

And as a result, is the balance of power shifting east?

China poised to overhaul US as biggest publisher of scientific papers
Royal Society report shows China pushing UK into third place in scientific publishing and predicts it will soon surpass the US