> So being excited about science makes you a bro?

blindly treating science as dogmatic religion, science supporters tend to use arguments like:

the science is settled its proven by science listen to science

if you look at it, they're just using authority of established doctrines and theories to present themselves as defending some unassailable truth with their opponents being primitive troglodytes who should "believe in science"(treating science as belief system/ideology)

"Science" in this case is the best knowledge we have. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it's not the best thing we have.

Any time I read the terms "western/western world", I just replace it with white people, and it works the exact same. It's interesting to me that we've come up with such a euphemism, because the raw definition of those terms make no sense whatsoever.

Perhaps it is because I'm a Trinidadian living in Canada, so I've experienced both sides of the coin wrt. this terminology.