Meaning of scienticide | Babel Free

Definitions

Destruction or debasement of scientific method, understanding, and/or infrastructure; a (figurative) killing of science.

no-plural, rare

Examples

“In the AVNOJ-Yugoslav period, a significant network of educational-scientific and scientific-research institutions was developed. In the period of the Chetnik, tiral-fascist aggression, Sarajevo has experienced an actual scienticide.”

“Their myths neglected the heredity, while their “research” activities were full of primitive mistakes and falsifications, and followed by the massive administrative terror that was supported by the government. It led to the broad “scienticide” in fSU.”

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