http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/07/08/canutes-of-the-carolinas/#more-17998
No matter whether it is the classic Greek science, or Arabic science,
or Soviet science, the conclusion is clear: science cannot be
subservient to ideology, and scientists cannot be forced to distort
their message or results in order to please the political or religious
powers that be. Lysenko and Stalin did not believe in Mendelian
genetics or Darwinian biology, and they murdered hundreds of
legitimate scientists who had the temerity to disagree with them.
Other regimes (such as the Nazis or the devout Muslims after 1100)
have distorted science to support their ideas, but ultimately
scientific reality must win.
---SPSmith
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