I don't believe in claims that there is a "western science" - I have too many friends and colleagues from poor towns in Columbia, big cities in India and China, small villages in Japan, and far-flung towns in Russia, to believe there is such a thing as "western this" or "eastern that" when it comes to developing reliable information about the natural world. We all interrogate the natural world in the hopes of understanding it. We all fail. We all challenge each other. Sometimes, we succeed and there is real joy. We all develop more reliable information as a result. Science is not a cold practice, dependent on strict philosophies and various "-isms" to make progress - that is a myth propagated by philosophers or, worse, scientists who study a little philosophy and think they know anything at all about it. Rather, science is a dance with the natural world, one that she leads, and all we can hope to do is try to follow and not screw up.