It's not pedantic if it goes to the very heart of the concept. > Also worth noting is that scientific research is heavily controlled in the world of 1984 for t

It's not pedantic if it goes to the very heart of the concept. > Also worth noting is that scientific research is heavily controlled in the world of 1984 for the reason that it brings novelty, advancement, and change of thought patterns. It was heavily controlled in the USSR, too, but that didn't prevent the Gulag Archipelago novels from being written, for example.