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		makeitdouble 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The US Assault on Science: National Academies Lett... Power. That's what you do if you want power. Edit: For those in doubt, a parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward > The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals

mindslight 9 months ago [–]

Given the movement is based around returning to some imagined idyllic time with simpler problems that we've already figured out how to solve, perhaps we should call it the Great Leap Backwards?

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