POLITICAL SCIENCE TOTALITARIAN ABUSES OF SCIENCE, FROM HITLER AND STALIN TO PUTIN’S RUSSIA

In an extract from his new book Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, SD TUCKER talks Communist corpuscles, Nazi nuclei and NATO-backed mutant homosexual potatoes from outer-space…

Science is the most objective of all spheres of human knowledge – isn’t it? Not when blinkered dictators like Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin march headlong into the laboratory it isn’t. Then, it becomes every bit as governed by lies, prejudice and the twisting of facts as everything else under quasi-religious dictatorial faiths like Nazism or Communism is. So as contemporary science becomes ever more ensnared within a web of competing political ideologies, perhaps we should look to the past for cautionary evidence of just where such processes can lead. Could such horrors unfold again today? They already have. Here, I explore three strange cases of science being abused to suit contrasting extremist political ideologies: one each from the Third Reich, USSR andVladimir Putin’s Russia. It’s happening here in the…

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