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Subject: Re: 2nd law -- Marxist science
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Date: 27 Aug 92 00:32:05 -0300
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In article <[e-mail]>,
      [e-mail] (Thomas Koenig) writes:
> I recently heard from a friend that some universities in what used to be
> the Eastern block did not teach the second law of thermodynamics to
> their students, because that was seen to collide with Marxist philosophy
... [text omitted]

There are several books about the Lysenko "affair", the repression of
Mendelian genetics ("Weissmanism-[somthing]ism) in favor of Lamarkian
principles.  Related to this is _The Strange Case of the Midwife Toad_
(very well-known author, but I forget his name...) about a biologist
named Kammerer with god-faith data appearing to support Lamarkism, a
murky controversy around him and his subsequent suicide.

Also, there was an article in Isis 15 or more years ago about
suppression of Pauling's resonance theory in organic chemistry because
resonance structures were idealizations, cotradicting "Marxist Realism".

Never heard anything about suppression of the 2nd law, though.
---
Mike Spencer
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