Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"

Gil Hardwick (gil@landmark.iinet.net.au)
Sat, 29 Apr 1995 05:48:49 GMT


In article <D7nr44.AGA@crash.cts.com>, Robert Roosen (roosen@crash.cts.com) writes:
>Carl,
> Go to the library and look up Trophim Lysenko. The success of a
>theory depends in part on its political popularity, as an entire
>generation of Russian geneticists learned to their dismay.
> Lysenkoism used to be a commonly used term in science--before it
>became a standard technique of the "political" scientists who are
>presently setting most public funding policies.
>Robert
>

You don't honestly expect Lyddick or Scott or any of the others to
swallow such a tale, do you?

Such "political" scientists (cf "political scientists", both here in
Australia simply "bureaucrats") such as they would hardly be expected
to concede policy here in public, would they?


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