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The Unwelcoming States of America
- nkurz 1mo agohttps://archive.is/2VOgm https://archive.is/2VOgm
- josefritzishere 1mo agoEveryone who reads history knows exactly how this ends.
- jfengel 1mo agoWhat would you say are the most equivalent parallels from history? I don't see this ending well, but I can't think of anything to compare it to. The canonical answer for an anti-scientific society would be the 16th century Catholic Church, and it actually didn't turn out too badly for them. The USSR invested in a lot of bad science, but they also did a lot of good work; they were often just wrong instead of having a specific grievance against scientists as a class.