Yup. Science as we know it is dead in the US.
I can tell you the day it died too. Remember when we spent a billion dollars digging the hole to put the Superconducting Supercollider in Texas? They decided not to go through with it, and spent a billion filling the hole back in.
Top flight science got tickets for Europe that very day. Now they work at CERN.
I didn’t know about that. Boy is that a heartbreaking story. I wonder what the reason was for not going through with it
In the Soviet Union, Lysenkoism replaced Mendel’s genetics, and they suffered massive famines while promising miracles.
Today, global warming / climate change is to blame for every weather outcome and justify any decision.
In the USSR, psychology was politicized, so that those who didn’t see that they lived in paradise on Earth could be locked up and medicated and tortured without even a show trial.
Today, conservatives are routinely considered “crazy” if not downright dangerous, while a man who says he’s a woman gets to wear a dress and get celebrated for proving there’s no difference between men and women, despite the male appendage between his legs.
In the Soviet Union, political officers ensured that only those who met a long checklist of political views held jobs of any importance.
Today, social justice warriors ensure that only PC views are expressed online while ridiculing or labeling as spam and hate sites that don’t to get them taken down.
In the name of tolerance, dissent isn’t permitted. Likewise, Human Resources departments apply the same monitoring of the workplace and punish those who express non-PC views, in the name of tolerance and preventing harassment. Don’t toe the line in public, get banned, don’t toe the line in private, lose your job.
So SJW and HR are the new political officers.