It took about a day to realize why Marxism might feel that way. These particular Soviet psychologists were charlatans. “We were thinking there really were going to be scientists on the Soviet end,” said Wandell. “There weren’t.” The Soviets and the Americans took turns giving presentations. An American would give a learned talk about decision theory. His Soviet counterpart would rise and offer a talk that sounded completely insane—one guy spent his allotted time on his theory about how the brain waves caused by beer canceled the brain waves caused by vodka. “We’d get up and give a paper, and
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