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Haldan was never a conservative of any kind, even though his uncle was a conservative politician. His father believed that science had to be done for the benefit of the masters. Haldan thought capitalist societies were organized around what they wanted and not what the people want. He saw an enormous amount of funding and attention being paid by the government to scientists and scientific institutions. And so when the russian revolution happened, in a couple of decades thereafter, as the soviet union paid, at first, real attention to science, and then after that, lip service, obviously, and not anything else. But as they continued to champion this model of ically built, egalitarian society, it

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