Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Physicists Are Dominant
In the soviet union there is a man named trofim denisovitch, lisenka. He believes that some kind of modified inheritance of acquired characteristics is how heredity actually happens. In stallan gets interested in this as an alternative to the geneticists. It becomes propagated a new soviet science. The eastern block in china starts to adopt aspects of it. After forty eight they say, the state has spoken about science ight? So it's not in excellent spectrum of science? We should make it all more anti-political.
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