NATIONALIZING SCIENCE
UNBELIEVABLE
The Russian Academy of Science is caught in Russia’s political tractor beam. It’s being drawn back, back, back into the yawning maw of the state.
The academy, which includes hundreds of institutions and over 50,000 researchers, was messed with in every possible way when Russia was the “Soviet Union”. That was to be expected, right? But not even Stalin had the brass round ones to try to turn it into a branch of the state
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Quirin Schiermeier (NATURE International Journal Of Science) reports that it’s all over for the 289 year old academy. The State Duma just voted to grab it.
The vote in the upper house is a done deal. Soon enough, this venerable institution of Russian science will be breathing the fetid air of bureaucracy and the suave Vladimir Putin who leads modern Russia will be left wondering why his country’s science is lagging.
It wouldn’t be right for MISTER ScienceAintSoBad to bite his tongue when a venerable institution of science is being attacked.
I hope you agree.
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Cartoon by me.Credits for the photo to the Russian Academy of Sciences: 
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