Thank you for the post and link. Good stuff.
We should all remember Lysenko and Lysenkoism - government promoting a false belief and attacking anyone who would dissent.
“Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Yes indeed, good point. I’ve been thinking about the term “Grubercrat” which I coined (probably others thought of the same thing, but I haven’t seen it); the close Russian equivalent would be “apparatchik.”