Re: 2nd law -- Marxist science

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From: Bill Purves
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:56

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In article <1992Aug27.003205.7166@ac.dal.ca> mspencer@quasar.sba.dal.ca writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.023245.11738@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, 
>      ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>> I recently heard from a friend that some universities in what used to be
>> the Eastern block did not teach the second law of thermodynamics to
>> their students, because that was seen to collide with Marxist philosophy
>... [text omitted]
>
> Related to this is _The Strange Case of the Midwife Toad_
>(very well-known author, but I forget his name...) about a biologist
>named Kammerer with god-faith data appearing to support Lamarkism, a
>murky controversy around him and his subsequent suicide.

The very well-known author is Arthur Koestler.  I believe the actual
title is "The Case of the Midwife Toad."

(bill)

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