Abstract
MY FATHER AND MOTHER BELIEVED in science as a source of rational truth. Science was trustworthy and exportable to the many corners of human activity. Medicine, engineering, weather prediction, and even social planning could be approached scientifically. All one needed to do was isolate a problem, analyze it carefully, and design appropriate solutions. Politics were a separate matter. One could (and certainly did) argue about whether it was moral or immoral to drop the atomic bomb, or whether Lysenko had any right to stick his nose into the development of Soviet genetics. But although both science and politics were important for producing human progress, scientific knowledge and social belief were different beasts.
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