DISINFO: Modern science is controlled, monopolised and censored by liberal ideology
SUMMARY
Modern science is Western science. Science should not be subordinate to ideology but modern science is controlled, monopolised and censored by liberal ideology.
RESPONSE
The article’s message is consistent with the recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Western liberalism is a totalitarian ideology that controls politics, culture, science, education, art and all aspects of life.
The article’s claim that modern science is “controlled and censored by liberal ideology” is false and espouses a completely distorted view of liberalism and its relationship with modern science. Scientific research is not subject to ideological control and censorship in liberal societies. Liberal societies are based on freedom of thought and expression, as well as openness and experimentation in all aspects of social and cultural life.
Authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, instead, often severely limit the freedoms that are necessary for the growth of scientific knowledge.
See a previous case in our database claiming that a progressivist pseudo-religion completely dominates academia and all aspects of public life in the West, controlling people’s minds and beliefs.