Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef Stalin. He was an advocate of the theory that characteristics acquired by ...
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One Soviet scientist helped starve millions – the horror of Lysenkoism
Lysenkoism became one of the Soviet Union’s most disastrous scientific and political catastrophes after ideology replaced ...
Trofim Lysenko: His refusal to acknowledge scientific fact led to famine and death on an enormous scale. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...
Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics.
Soviet "scientist" Trofim Lysenko examines some wheat. His infamy stemmed in part from his pseudoscientific claims about agriculture. (Wikimedia Commons) On April 22, masses of American researchers ...
CONSERVATIVE LYSENKOISM….THE DEFINITIVE REPORT….Chris Mooney emailed me yesterday to draw my attention to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists about how deeply the ideological tentacles of ...
A strange thing is happening to the venerable magazine Scientific American. It has decided to kick its science-loving readers in the teeth and embrace a modern equivalent of Lysenkoism—the doctrine ...
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was Joseph Stalin’s favorite scientist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of a new pseudo-science of hybridization which had strong political appeal to Stalin and his ...
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