A notable example is J.D. Bernal, a tremendous scientist who ended up endorsing Lysenko's crackpot biology just because Stalin did, too.
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And also Haldane and Hardy. At some point it seemed that there was a linear correlation between Cambridge intellectuals and communism.
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I think Dorothy Hodgkin wrote some nice things about Elena Ceaușescu's book on isoprene polymerization
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Thanks for the link. She and Bernal were indeed close.
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They had a full-fledged relationship. Bernal was a notorious Don Juan who could have handily violated academic harassment laws today.
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I wasn't going to say it
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To be fair to him, all those relationships were consensual; he had an all-encompassing intellect that seemed irresistible. But still.
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I get upset when C.L., Libertarian and Cons. circles become orthodox in thought, and legitimate criticism is "leftist," or else excused.
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This is going on my list
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Very good on the ‘ideas’ of Derrida and Foucault, and ‘academic postmodernism’.
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This is why the left historically has been responsible for genocides. Giving centralized power to flawed humans & encouraging intervention.
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Libertarians want decentralization and have a negative view of human nature. Power corrupts.
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The left wants centralized power with active intervention which demands a positive view of human nature.
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That sounds like a good read, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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People have to root for their team, right?
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Of course! No coach would ever say the team is perfect, or believe developing players for trade of other teams is a bad idea. New+old ideas!
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