Hitler's and Stalin's Misuse of Science av S D Tucker

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In today¿s world, science itself, which we are constantly being told is a neutral vehicle for wholly objective ideas and theories, is increasingly being hijacked and abused by the toxic modern cult of identity politics, of both left and right. But should we be too surprised by any of this? No, because this exact same sorry process has happened time and again before, under the rule of totalitarian political cults like the Nazis and the Soviets, both of which vigorously promoted various pseudoscientific theories of ¿Aryan Science¿ and ¿Marxist Science¿ on the sole grounds that they were ideologically correct as opposed to being factually so.Nazi racial pseudoscience and belief in nonsense like the ¿World Ice Theory¿, which claimed that stars did not really exist and were actually just reflections of the sun off giant floating space-icebergs, were widely encouraged in the Third Reich, and used for long-term military weather-forecasting purposes. Likewise, the ideas of the renegade biologi