to a child of '80s propaganda, it seems very much as if the Soviet scientific regime, where we credit assertions of fact because they support our politics or discredit them because the wrong people do bad things with them, has mysteriously transplanted itself to the United States
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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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not bad but needs more chaos dragons
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