Every layer of institutional knowledge validated this public-health technology. Yet it’s being overruled based on a politically torqued misr
Misleading and irresponsible journalism is being used to launder the reputation of RFK Jr.
The US health secretary is spreading disinformation about vaccines while the administration he serves guts medical-research agencies and pro
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Scientists are forced to sign on to bullshit or resign.
That's not how science works. That's how a religion or cult works. Firing dissenters to protect your presuppositional beliefs is a form of fundamentalist faith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Lysenkoism was a political campaign led by the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting.
More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents. The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed. Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissenting opinions and discredit, marginalize, and imprison his critics, elevating his anti-Mendelian theories to state-sanctioned doctrine.
Soviet scientists who refused to renounce genetics were dismissed from their posts and left destitute. Hundreds if not thousands of others were imprisoned. Several were sentenced to death as enemies of the state, including the botanist Nikolai Vavilov, whose sentence was commuted to prison. Lysenko's ideas and practices contributed to the famines that killed millions of Soviet people; the adoption of his methods from 1958 in the People's Republic of China had similarly calamitous results, contributing to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1961.
