{"id":1768741,"date":"2022-12-09T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768741"},"modified":"2022-12-09T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:02:50","slug":"chinas-war-on-science-deepens-its-totalitarian-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-war-on-science-deepens-its-totalitarian-control\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s War On Science Deepens Its Totalitarian Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinas-war-on-science-deepens-its-totalitarian-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ideology, taken to extremes, tends to reject observed truths. Thus, American leftists, with monopoly control of major urban areas and academia, preside over spikes in homicides, open drug use, homelessness, and ridiculous historical fabulism. Many of the elite claim with straight faces that there are <a href=\"https:\/\/helpfulprofessor.com\/types-of-genders-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">81 genders<\/a> while simultaneously staking a sacred belief in \u201cscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such willful insanity has been seen before, in other places. Starting in the 1930s and continuing for two decades, Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union imposed the theories of biologist Trofim Lysenko on the nation. Under Lysenko, genetics was sneered at as \u201cbourgeois science,\u201d \u201cfascist,\u201d and even \u201cJewish.\u201d To create the New Soviet Man, science had to be rebuilt on the foundation of dialectical materialism, rejecting the idea that humans had a certain nature that could only be evolved over long periods of time through Darwinian random selection.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, led to the executions and imprisonment of thousands of actual scientists. A rejection of science meant wasting limited resources trying to grow crops under poor conditions. And Lysenko\u2019s beliefs also contributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6499510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">famine that killed up to 6 million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lysenkoism has come to mean the purposeful bending of science in service of ideology.<\/p>\n<p>In self-correcting societies, the trend toward Lysenkoism can be checked. Elections have consequences. Thus, in America, some elected officials who pushed harsh lockdowns in response to Covid-19, or who allow biological males to compete against females, or who promote criminal justice practices that erode public safety, have found themselves out of office.<\/p>\n<p>But in dictatorial nations, such as the old Soviet Union or the People\u2019s Republic of China, Lysenkoism can have free range \u2014 with disastrous consequences.<\/p>\n<p> Anti-Science Lysenkoism in China <\/p>\n<p>The danger signs in China have been there for years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well-known that paramount leader Xi Jinping, China\u2019s first leader to hold a doctorate degree, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiasentinel.com\/p\/plagiarism-and-xi-jinping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plagiarized his doctoral thesis<\/a> \u2014 and even likely had someone else write it for him. This shouldn\u2019t come as shock for a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss who got class credit in Marxist theory and ideological education at Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua University for his work for the party.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, the CCP <a href=\"https:\/\/forbetterscience.com\/2021\/01\/21\/communist-party-gives-xuetao-cao-meiyu-geng-hongliang-li-a-slap-on-the-wrist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointed Xuetao Cao, a top immunologist, as chairman of research integrity<\/a>. Chairman Cao\u2019s past scholarship included dubious studies into curing metastatic tumors with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/research-scandal-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emitted Qigong energy<\/a>.\u201d This effort was a part of a much larger, Chairman Xi-approved push to elevate traditional Chinese medicinal practices \u2014 an official push that has led to numerous studies claiming no negative results, which is a scientific impossibility. Largely for this reason, more papers have been retracted in China due to fraudulent peer review than in any other nation. But in their view, Chinese acupuncture must be perfect, you see, because it\u2019s Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, retracted papers were also a problem for Cao, who, shortly after being promoted to his post, was accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/blog-post\/research-scandal-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">major research breaches<\/a> involving faked research.<\/p>\n<p>After evidence was presented that would have sunk the careers of any legitimate scientist, Cao was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-00219-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cleared of plagiarism and fraud<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In dictatorial nations, such as China or the old Soviet Union, anti-science Lysenkoism can have free range \u2014 with disastrous consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":1768744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5909,4154,7051,6919,4613,7050,6696],"class_list":["post-1768741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-chinas","tag-control","tag-deepens","tag-federalist","tag-science","tag-totalitarian","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}