slowly metastasizing outward from the social sciences, or not so slowly at all on an institutional time scale one does have to consider, of course, whether the idea that we didn't do that in America was never any more than propaganda
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the current rejection of replicable results in epigenetics, not because they're bad science, but because they pattern match to Lamarck and Lysenko, certainly seems to support that, feeling as it does like the ghost of an epistemic siege engine aimed at a vanished enemy
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in the absence of total information control, though, propaganda does need a measure of support, so it doesn't seem impossible that the need to assert that that's what Their Idiots do and Our Geniuses would never may have inhibited the behavior somewhat
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did Mikhail Gorbachev destroy American scientific integrity? dying minds are enquiring to know
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions seems a mire accurate and less malign explanation
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if you mean for the epigenetics kerfuffle, probably as far as it goes, though i don't remember it much addressing theory adoption being driven by the need for tribal differentiation. anti-Lysenkoism may have had the best results at the time but the other driver was clearly there
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