THAT WHICH IS POLITICALLY TRUE IS NEVER SCIENTIFICALLY TRUE | 2006-09-23
This can go into your set of basic ammunition along with Bob's Mantra and HERESY!
There may, at some unique time in history, have been a single scientific truth which the
ruling regime had to impose, but I don't know of it. When the Medicogenetical Institute
of Moscow did a massive identical twin study and found that heredity was all-important
compared to environment, Stalin wiped them out. Communism says that all of man's defects
are to be cured by a Communist environment.
Stalin then put Lysenko in charge of Soviet genetics. Lysenko help to destroy Soviet agriculture, which didn't need much help in being destroyed, by saying that genes were unimportant. He tried the old Lamarckist method of turning summer wheat into winter wheat by FREEZING it.
The same thing is true of Political Correctness.
It took us a full generation to get over the idea, backed by "reputable scientific opinion," that gay sex practices really had nothing to do with AIDS.
A forensic pathologist must be able to do two things:
1) Find our the race of a corpse from a few dessicated remains; and
2) Testify under oath that race does not exist.
This is not unusual in our society. This is not unusual in any toitalitarian environment.
George Orwell called it Doublethink.
When a scientist says something that the authorities WANT to be true, it is NEVER true.