Re: [Marxism] From the latest LRB

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists <ok.president+nbsy@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Eric Hobsbawm on Joseph Needham:
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n04/hobs01_.html

Needham, unfortunately, seems to have been a very dishonest man. In
his new book of reminiscences, George Steiner speaks of a meeting
where Needham, a biochemist, falsely asserted that he had found that
the United States had used bacteriological weapons in the Korean war.
Apparently, Needham was prepared to falsify the record as long as it
suited his propaganda needs. (See
<http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/my-unwritten-books-by-george-steiner/>
for a review of Steiner's book.)

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