All scientific activities are inherently embedded to the concept of evidence and rightly so, for what would the scientific temper be in absence of verified and verifiable evidence? But today this search for evidence seems to have taken gigantic proportions, and is being talked about as never before. Are we increasingly getting too fixated about evidence? Can this assiduous search in the scientific sphere become so pervasive that it starts casting its shadow on our daily, routine life- transactions?
I fear that seems to be happening, because the language of "evidence" is being used more and more in our daily lives. Like carrying the office work with us, we have subconsciously started carrying office and business precepts to our homes. Marry Shelley had written in Frankenstein – “The machines which men make, make men, machines.” Like everything else, searching for evidence in all that…
