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Glad we live in a era were accusations and rumors are not used as political weapons against individuals.
I don’t recall anyone being sent to work camps for criticizing government policy in the US recently.
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He was vindicated by modern science. His "delusions" were that epigenetics exist and are heritable. (His opponents took a polar, more hardline stance that only genetic information is relevant for phenotype expression.) See more here: https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=heritable%20epigene...
If only he did not resort to using political means instead of science to push his views, he could have been considered a visionary (like Vernadsky or Oparin). Instead, he's just a criminal and a fraud.
They went by космономер.
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Glad we live in a era were accusations and rumors are not used as political weapons against individuals.
This is low effort and specious. One person losing a job or appointment isn't the same as people being forced out of careers entirely or (literally) sentenced to years in a gulag because someone didn't like them. There is surely space for reasoned discussion about "cancel culture" and its effects on public discourse that doesn't involve likening a bunch of hippies on Twitter to the Soviet repression machine. Can we p…
Try speculating publicly about
1. Heritability of intelligence/behavior
2. Genetic differences among ethnicities
Of course neither points go against scientific "consensus" individually, it's only discussing them simultaneously that risks your scientific career.
Now try publishing something critical of covid vaccines. Or the modern approach to diagnosis/treatment of gender dysphoria. There are relatively few examples of such cancellations because the threat is implicit but well known, and that's sufficient to suppress dissent and give the illusion of consensus, but I digress.
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This is low effort and specious. One person losing a job or appointment isn't the same as people being forced out of careers entirely or (literally) sentenced to years in a gulag because someone didn't like them. There is surely space for reasoned discussion about "cancel culture" and its effects on public discourse that doesn't involve likening a bunch of hippies on Twitter to the Soviet repression machine. Can we p…
>One person losing a job or appointment isn't the same as people being forced out of careers entirely Try speculating publicly about 1. Heritability of intelligence/behavior 2. Genetic differences among ethnicities Of course neither points go against scientific "consensus" individually, it's only discussing them simultaneously that risks your scientific career. Now try publishing something critical of covid vaccines.…
You just did! Let me know when you're canceled.
This argument is circular. You're saying the purported suppression can't be detected because its effect is already so widespread. And it's widespread because of the threat of cancellation. Which didn't happen. See the problem? The only way to get to your conclusion is to assume as a prior that this research doesn't exist because it's being suppressed, and not merely because it's wrong.
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I don’t recall anyone being sent to work camps for criticizing government policy in the US recently.
They weren't necessary sent to work camps. Some were just fired and couldn't get hired. Later, in 1950's & 60's, you would be effectively banned from career. Sometimes librarians would paint black their name if they were in references section. Since 1960's victims of these political battles could go to other institutions, probably at less important position. This practice continued all the way till the collapse of th…
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They weren't necessary sent to work camps. Some were just fired and couldn't get hired. Later, in 1950's & 60's, you would be effectively banned from career. Sometimes librarians would paint black their name if they were in references section. Since 1960's victims of these political battles could go to other institutions, probably at less important position. This practice continued all the way till the collapse of th…
I would not compare anything that happened in the West to what happened in the USSR. I don't recall anyone in the West being sent to a work camp or shot because someone accused them of something they were not.
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They weren't necessary sent to work camps. Some were just fired and couldn't get hired. Later, in 1950's & 60's, you would be effectively banned from career. Sometimes librarians would paint black their name if they were in references section. Since 1960's victims of these political battles could go to other institutions, probably at less important position. This practice continued all the way till the collapse of th…
I would not compare anything that happened in the West to what happened in the USSR. I don't recall anyone in the West being sent to a work camp or shot because someone accused them of something they were not.