Document Type : Letter to Editor
Author
1 Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
2 Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
3 HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Keywords
Over the years, history has shown that political leaders who disregard science can have tangible, damaging impacts on population health. We see this in Hitler’s Germany, which refused important research because it was developed by ‘Jewish science’, or Stalin’s Soviet Union, which relied on Trofim Lysenko’s false agricultural theories and contributed to widespread famine and massive human casualties.1,2 ... (Read more...)
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