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CSense wrote
Here, a pretty old (2004) but also highly accurate depiction of science in Arab/Muslim world
It's chokefull with statistics and many othe interesting aspects, such as
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Only 370 industrial patents were issued to people in Arab countries between 1980 and 2000. In South Korea during that same period, 16,000 industrial patents were issued
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No more than 10,000 books were translated into Arabic over the entire past millennium, equivalent to the number translated into Spanish each year
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A very instructive reading, enjoy: http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i26/26a03601.htm |
Considering that the Western world got picked out of the Dark Ages by the Middle East cats, that is pretty appalling. Guess they think they know it all, now.