The Peril of Politicizing Science

[Sunsettommy]

ACS Publications​

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The Peril of Politicizing Science​

Anna I. Krylov
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States

Cite this: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 22, 5371–5376
Publication Date:June 10, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475

Excerpt:

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
–George Orwell, 1984

I grew up in a city that in its short history (barely over 150 years) had its name changed three times.(2,3) Founded in 1869 around a steel plant and several coal mines built by the Welsh industrialist John Hughes, the settlement was originally called Hughesovka (or Yuzovka). When the Bolsheviks came to power in the 1917 Revolution, the new government of the working class, the Soviets, set out to purge the country of ideologically impure influences in the name of the proletariat and the worldwide struggle of the suppressed masses. Cities and geographical landmarks were renamed,(4) statues were torn down, books were burned, and many millions were jailed and murdered.(5) In due course, the commissars got to Yuzovka, and the city was stripped of the name of its founder, a representative of the hostile class of oppressors and a Westerner. In modern terms, Hughes was canceled. For a few months, the city was called Trotsk (after Leon Trotsky), until Trotsky lost in the power struggle inside the party and was himself canceled (see Figure 1). In 1924 the city became the namesake of the new supreme leader of the Communist Party (Stalin), and a few years later renamed to Stalino. My mother’s school certificates have Stalino on them. Following Stalin’s death in 1953, the Communist party underwent some reckoning and admitted that several decades of terror and many millions of murdered citizens were somewhat excessive. Stalin was canceled: his body was removed from the Mausoleum at Red Square (where it had been displayed next to Lenin’s); textbooks and encyclopedias were rewritten once again; and the cities, institutions, and landmarks bearing his name were promptly renamed. Stalino became Donetsk, after the river Severskii Donets.

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Makes a good case for Government to stay out of science research.

 

[whitehall]

You can't complain about a city that ends in "sovka" that hasn't had a peaceful decade since Napoleonian invaded Russia changing it's name and it ain't about science.

 

[theHawk]

They’ve already politicized science. Saying there are two genders can now get people fired.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

ACS Publications​

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The Peril of Politicizing Science​

Anna I. Krylov
Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States

Cite this: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 22, 5371–5376
Publication Date:June 10, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01475

Excerpt:

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
–George Orwell, 1984

I grew up in a city that in its short history (barely over 150 years) had its name changed three times.(2,3) Founded in 1869 around a steel plant and several coal mines built by the Welsh industrialist John Hughes, the settlement was originally called Hughesovka (or Yuzovka). When the Bolsheviks came to power in the 1917 Revolution, the new government of the working class, the Soviets, set out to purge the country of ideologically impure influences in the name of the proletariat and the worldwide struggle of the suppressed masses. Cities and geographical landmarks were renamed,(4) statues were torn down, books were burned, and many millions were jailed and murdered.(5) In due course, the commissars got to Yuzovka, and the city was stripped of the name of its founder, a representative of the hostile class of oppressors and a Westerner. In modern terms, Hughes was canceled. For a few months, the city was called Trotsk (after Leon Trotsky), until Trotsky lost in the power struggle inside the party and was himself canceled (see Figure 1). In 1924 the city became the namesake of the new supreme leader of the Communist Party (Stalin), and a few years later renamed to Stalino. My mother’s school certificates have Stalino on them. Following Stalin’s death in 1953, the Communist party underwent some reckoning and admitted that several decades of terror and many millions of murdered citizens were somewhat excessive. Stalin was canceled: his body was removed from the Mausoleum at Red Square (where it had been displayed next to Lenin’s); textbooks and encyclopedias were rewritten once again; and the cities, institutions, and landmarks bearing his name were promptly renamed. Stalino became Donetsk, after the river Severskii Donets.

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Makes a good case for Government to stay out of science research.

Conservatives knew Fauci was a quack and have been warning people for over a year.

Red State goobernors weren't stupid controlling fucks to shut down life.

Libturds , TDS, and Covid are soly responsible for this over hyped disaster

 

[Sunsettommy]

It appears that the article isn't well understood by the the way comments are posted here.

Can anyone post something that is more to the point over what she wrote about?

 

[dblack]

They’ve already politicized science. Saying there are two genders can now get people fired.

The problem is that everything is politicized. And by "politicized" I mean subsumed by the two-party pissing match. Politics will always be with us. But the hyper partisan shit is a by-product of our election process, and can be changed.

 

[Sunsettommy]

The problem is that everything is politicized. And by "politicized" I mean subsumed by the two-party pissing match. Politics will always be with us. But the hyper partisan shit is a by-product of our election process, and can be changed.

The article does a good job showing the damage government does to science research they manage, it is why the Soviets were so backwards in science, they literally had to steal some of it from us as part of trying to keep with us.

Governments needs to stay out of science research!