Unlike science, an ideology is constructed of conventional ambiguous expressions, which require interpretation. It is impossible to verify or experimentally confirm an ideological statement, one cannot refute these for they are meaningless. [...] While arising, an ideology may have pretensions to be scientific. But having become an ideology, it loses all the major characteristics of science. (Aleksandr Zinovyev)

Unlike science, an ideology is constructed of conventional ambiguous expressions, which require interpretation. It is impossible to verify or experimentally confirm an ideological statement, one cannot refute these for they are meaningless. [...] While arising, an ideology may have pretensions to be scientific. But having become an ideology, it loses all the major characteristics of science.

Aleksandr Zinovyev

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