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We look back at Lysenkoism as a movement that promoted a wrong scientific theory using political means that led to censoring alternative theories and killing or
by aaplok 4y ago
We look back at Lysenkoism as a movement that promoted a wrong scientific theory using political means that led to censoring alternative theories and killing or imprisoning scientists.
Not only have nobody been jailed or killed for promoting views antagonistic to the view of this presumed "Newchurch", but you are writing your comment under an article about how these "Newchurch" views have been censored after a complaint against them in the name of science.
No matter how hard people try to believe it, we don't live in the time of Stalin and Lysenko. I feel it is disrespectful to their victims to claim that our petty frustrations are in any way comparable to their very real suffering.
- hugblx 4y ago[dead]
- aaplok 4y agoAs unpleasant as these women's experience is, none of them are in jail, and none of them were murdered by the state for holding these views. We're a far cry from the Lysenko era. Especially because none of the parties (on either side) even claims to be doing science. What I see in the articles you linked is a lot of noise on both sides of the ideological line, using twitter first and then traditional media. We live in a noisy time, and this may have deplorable consequences, including (self)-censoring. I don't see a systematic state-led ideological war using systematic jailing and killing.