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- From: purves@jarthur.claremont.edu (Bill Purves)
- Subject: Re: 2nd law -- Marxist science
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.035639.28998@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <1992Aug26.023245.11738@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1992Aug27.003205.7166@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:56:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.003205.7166@ac.dal.ca> mspencer@quasar.sba.dal.ca writes:
- >In article <1992Aug26.023245.11738@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>,
- > ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (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]
- >
- > 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.
-
- The very well-known author is Arthur Koestler. I believe the actual
- title is "The Case of the Midwife Toad."
-
- (bill)
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