The Politicization of Science: A Conversation with Dorian Abbot, Anna Krylov, David Romps, and Bernhardt Trout
New Books in Higher Education
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The History of the USSR
Science and scientists were watched and scrutinized by the communist party ideologues. Every institution had a department entrusted with ideological control of what institution was doing. The most famous example known in the West is the San Cabisma, an agronomist who rejected Mendelian genetics as inconsistent with Marxist ideology. Open exercise of religion was enough to shut down educational professional advance or get one into jail.
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