Word: holton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cases] include such diverse instancesas...the 'Aryan' science in Germany...[and] theanti-science campaign associated with China'sCultural Revolution," writes Holton...
...recent trip to China, Holton says he foundthe scientific texts were still based on "mid 19thcentury Marxist" theory long ago discredited byWestern science...
...There is and ought to be a thoroughly thoughtout and skeptical view of both science andnon-science at all times," says Holton...
...Holton says such review makes a misuse ofscience through politics unlikely, since everyapplication is judged by fellow scientists ratherthan bureaucrats or politicians...
...Holton says he is confident that a properbalance of criticism and acceptance of sciencewill exist in American politics due to the natureof the nation's democracy. "The wonderful thingabout the American political scene is it wasinvented by people who were reacting to excesses,"he says...