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“Science” that focuses on feelings threatens our future
By Duggan Flanakin |January 11th, 2023|Science|0 Comments
“Our schools are failing to educate students to be prepared for undergraduate science education –
while also teaching them that political conformity is the essence of science.”
According to the National Association of Scholars, America today is in danger of replicating the Lysenko cult that dominated Soviet Russia and Communist China nearly a century ago.
Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko beginning in the 1930s led a campaign against Mendelian genetics and science-based agriculture that rejected natural selection in favor of his own self-styled techniques he wrongly claimed would radically increase crop yields.
K.L. Lerner states that “the disastrous effects of Lysenkoism … darkly illustrate the disastrous intrusion of politics and ideology into the affairs of science.” Lysenkoism worsened the famine and deprivations facing Soviet citizens. It als brought repression and persecution of scientists who dared oppose his pseudoscientific doctrines. Chairman Mao’s adoption of Lysenkoism culminated in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-62.
https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/11/science-that-focuses-on-feelings-threatens-our-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-that-focuses-on-feelings-threatens-our-future&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-that-focuses-on-feelings-threatens-our-future
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Science should be a dispassionate search for facts, following evidence. When feelings are interjected, or someone equates a particular theory with their ego, then that dispassionate search for answers may be seriously compromised.
It amazed other undergraduates in the Geology Department I studies at that another student and I could take different theories about the sedimentology and depositional environment of a rock formation and argue vehemently for one theory or another, pick apart one of both and then still be friends. It was because we were not married to ideas, but to finding out which (if any) withstood critical analysis. Good times, those.
Nowadays, though, with big money, prestige, and political power in the mix, truth is often a casualty.
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Science should be a dispassionate search for facts, following evidence. When feelings are interjected[, or someone equates a particular theory with their ego, then that dispassionate search for answers may be seriously compromised.] ...It is no longer science.
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