Often it pays simply to remember what a rigidly ideological culture we inhabit. Imagine it's 1986 and this story comes from SoViEt RuSsIa. Derek Lowe (who I ho

Often it pays simply to remember what a rigidly ideological culture we inhabit. Imagine it's 1986 and this story comes from SoViEt RuSsIa. Derek Lowe (who I hold to be adjacent to a National Treasure) would not be obliged to speculate about motives. The entire bloviosphere would unanimously collapse into mockery. The word is "corrupt." It's simple.