“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of science, it was the era of sorcery, it was the epoch of knowledge, it was the millennium of heresy, it was the funeral of honesty, it was the festival of deceit, it was the spring of reality, it was the winter of illusion, it was the rise of researchers, it was the fall of research, it was the dawn of academics, it was the dusk of academia, it was the essence of evidence, it was the lack of proof, it was the victory of allegations, it was the defeat of truths, it was the infinity of humanity, it was the eternity of cruelty, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way! In short, those years were so far like the present period!”

The above paragraph could have been what Charles Dickens would have written in 2050 about our current times nowadays, around 2025, had he lived up until then and wanted to rewrite his narrative of “A Tale of Two Cities” in a better, more realistic way! With no doubt, he would have been drastically much more dramatic and creative, too. Weirdly enough, I am sorry to say that what may seem to you as a scholarly kind of fiction, maybe even a rare type of art, is in fact, a contemporary living everyday reality. This is a call to reflect on the matter, contemplate, meditate, speculate, and take action before it's too late. Science, knowledge, culture, literature, and every good thing about them, are all at risk, so, let's all save them all.