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by petra
3681 days ago
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>> Both the NAZIs and the regime of Joseph Stalin had a history of supporting well-connected frauds to the detriment of science. Can you expand some details about that in the nazi regime ? but leave aside that nasty stuff with eugenics(which wasn't really a science) and focus on the hard sciences ? |
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But fine, let's skip eugenics.
* Ahnenerbe - racial heritage of German people, and plenty of occultism * Large parts of their human experimentation. * "Social Darwinism". (Granted, runs into eugenics. But it's the foundational belief under the whole regime, so hard to avoid) * Phrenology * "Jewish physics" - discarding Einstein completely. Trying to get Heisenberg & Quantum Physics, as well, but turned out his science worked a little too well to discard. * The idea that women can't get pregnant from rape[1]
In general, you'll find much of the "bad" science in the softer sciences - the more soft, the worse. The reason is that it's easier to maintain a fraud if the field doesn't expect clear reproducible answers.
The harder sciences were affected via Aryanization - e.g. Chemistry lost 25% of all its academics in the runup to 39.[2]
[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/11/nazi_anat... [2] http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i37/Chemistry-Nazi-Germany.ht...