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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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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