Continuing the discussion on "the cult of science" Hedges asserts:
"The cult of science promises to eradicate or reform the tainted and morally inferior populations of the human race. This cult resulted, in Nazi Germany, in the slaughter of Jews, the mentally ill, gypsies, "inferior" races and homosexuals. It resulted in the Soviet Union's massive famines and pogroms. And those who champion the cult of science must make war on science. The cult always becomes absurd. This is why, in the name of science, the regimes of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union became scientific backwaters. Adolf Hitler sent expeditions to Tibet to fine the forefathers of the Aryan race. He financed experiment to breed apes with human beings and create a race of oversized warriors. The Soviet Union attacked "Jewish" science and "bourgeois biology," leading the Soviet authorities to reject Einstein's physics and Mendel's genetics. The cult of science foists upon science an impossible task -- that of transforming human nature. When science fails to achieve this goal, as it always will, science is discarded and replaced by gimmicks dressed up as science."
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