>a problem with a system Short recap: Vavilov was prosecuted for political opposition, not science. Two arguements for this: 1 - read his sentence and biograph

>a problem with a system Short recap: Vavilov was prosecuted for political opposition, not science. Two arguements for this: 1 - read his sentence and biography; 2 - genetics of that day was not an alternative and did not get a more sufficient evidence than agrobiology, that is the real explanation of genetic research being put aside (but never stopped). >the way science is supposed to be done There was a lot of good thinking done last century about how you can not disentangle science and ideology or other cultural biases, starting from defining science. Science is a tool, not a goal. So you can say > It is a problem with a system that looks towards <private gain/God's love/progress for whole humanity/etc>, says what science fits that best, and embeds it into society and it works everytime. Unless you've got an ideology based on science? That's what historical materialism attempted by the way.