Neither you nor I are scholars or anywhere near experts on Chinese history. Like motor, I cant fathom how and why you link unrelated and divergant arguments that are simply incorrect. The thread is about acaddeic fraud and a mney get rich scheme. That was clouded by statements that science always corrupts like the Nazis. Smoking ? And then in reposnse to massive extermiinations of Stalin and Mao, you said -
"Changes to cropping, waterway management, resource allocation was all "science" based."
Never mentioned Stalin or the Khemer Rouge.........
WRONG Those are cultural values, not science based. Or at least not acadenic science like what I meant. Mao got rid of his opposition and he didn't need or use any scientific excuse to justify it. He needed bullets and masses of ignorant hungary angry peasant mobs. Redistributing some irriagation water based on gravity is not really science, is it ? You are bending and slanting history to fit some unrelated agenda. The Red Book. It was a bloody power struggle and redistribution and not using "science" to justify it. If by science you mean they used mathematics in surveying for water ditches then yeah, sure, but as a propoganda tool to feed the mob, no.
Smoking ??
Did you read the Red book or the more recent manifesto establishing the CCP steps to world domination by 2040 or ? I havent but I would like to hear your take on that if you have. Would be interesting to hear from a Chinese national on this. My contacts are gone now.. . . . ..