| Titre | La manipulation de l'information scientifique en URSS (À partir de l'exemple de l'aménagement fluvial) | |
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| Auteur | Pascal Marchand | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume34, no 3, juillet-septembre 1993 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Témoignage |
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| Page | 415-429 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Pascal Marchand, The manipulation of scientific information in USSR (based on the instance of river development).
Research on ex-USSR was made difficult because of the nature of available scientific information. Statistical yearbooks — sources of primary data — were rare. It was therefore often necessary to turn to "second hand" figures, collected in articles and other printed material which consisted either (in most cases) of a unique source or of several ones.
Whatever the case, such data were to be used cautiously: they represented a "formal" reality which had little to do with the "real" one. This distancing process ranges from "passive" devices (impossibility of checking data, shortness of series...) to "active" devices (delusion, flexible series, fake correlations...) that are means of deception.
The widespread use of such methods can be ascribed to the general purpose of the system; however, the human factor and lobbying scientists have their part as well. This is the way how sector-based ministries brainwashed the leadership of the country, presenting them only with "formal" realities. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1993_num_34_3_2362 |
