Moscow, July 30.
The Council of People's Commissars twice rejected the Soviet Academy of Science's plan for 1938, declaring that it did not correspond with the present needs of the country and did not insist sufficiently on the necessity of fighting against pseudo-scientists such as the Academician, Lazàrev. author of the theory on the influence of geographical position on the degree zation of peoples.
The journal "Pravda" doubted th sincerity of repentance of the Academician, Alexiev, authority on China and author of articles published in Paris last year in a magazine which also included articles by the "Japanese Fascists" Anazaki and Kato.
In one of his works, Alexiev wrote that "we are in a period of Russian cultural decline. Perhaps it is condemned to disappear from the face of the earth.
The "Pravda" also attacked the Academician, Richter, whose theories on genetics contradicted those of the young Academician, Lifnko, which have obtained so much success.
Furthermore, the paper criticized the scientists who allowed themselves to be influenced by the idealistic conclusions of foreign scientists in contradiction to Marxist materialism.
"Real science is based upon materialist," the journal concluded.—Havas.
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