Oh my. So many disturbing misconceptions. Facts aren't science. Science is a method - often used to attack and discard current facts. If you believe that something is 100% verifiable, you've just left the realm of science. In science, nothing is beyond question. Every fact is provisional, and might become falsehood tomorrow. Science is not "western" or culturally elitist. Anyone is free to practice it. I know many brilliant scientists from non-western cultures. The rules are simple and non-exclusionary, but quite rigid. Many scientists feel that everything is open to question - even the dearly-held and sacred beliefs of the deeply religious or the New Agers. Often the holders of sacred beliefs take offense at this. It's not personal (and if it is, the scientist is being an A-hole, and there are as many A-hole scientists per cap. as there are A-hole New Agers).   Wait a minute, just dropped a bit of vegetarian breakfast in my Birkenstock....

Okay, now where were we? Ah yes. Science is (IMHO) far far far from boring. I find it delightful to stand in a pitch dark cave with bats whizzing by - navigating a labryinth of cracks and tunnels that they "see" in their minds as clearly as we would if it were lit up like a stadium, or to see an eel in a freshwater stream and picture the incredible journey it may have just completed (and will undoubtedly attempt again), or to find the fresh nest of a turtle who was probably born at nearly this exact spot when Grandmother lived just over there as a little girl, or to look at a star and picture a hypothetical alien looking back at me from the third planet out who sees not me, but a dimetrydon. All of this magic with no magical thinking.