DISINFO: Zombification, immorality, hedonism and Satanism are spreading among young people in post-Soviet nations influenced by Western science
SUMMARY
Zombification, immorality, hedonism and Satanism are spreading among young people in post-Soviet nations as a result of the influence of modern Western science, which originated in European civilisation and arrived in post-Soviet societies after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Modern Western science marginalises moral values or removes them completely, and is based solely on material interests, utility and pleasure.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative portraying the West as a decadent and immoral society that destroys traditional values and claiming that the West spreads its decadent culture and its inferior and perverted values to the rest of the world. The article adds a new twist to the narrative by claiming that the influence of modern science in non-Western nations leads to the spread of immorality and perverted values among these nations’ young people.
The article provides no evidence to support its sweeping claim that the embrace of modern Western science in post-soviet nations has enabled the alleged spread of decadence and perverted values among youth in these nations.
Furthermore, the article’s claim that modern science marginalises moral values and is based on “material interests, utility and pleasure” is false. The enterprise of science requires the adoption of certain values that are adhered to by its practitioners with rigor: commitment to truth; freedom to enquire, to challenge, to think, to imagine the unimagined; tolerant engagement with the contrarian view, debate grounded in disputes arbitrated by the rules of evidence and rationality.
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