You were wrong about Chambers,and you are wrong about Stalin. I’ll not bother posting any factual accounts, for by your reactions you have repeatedly shown your disinterest in such.
You say I’d be better informed if I gained some knowledge of “science.” True science is the art of pursuing the truth of “how and why things work.”
The “science” you refer to and which you are determined to protect is not of that caliber. No, it is the art of gaining and keeping power, status, influence, and wealth at any cost.
This “science” is aptly decribed by Richard Lewontin, who provides ample evidence of why “pride goes before a fall:”
“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” (”Billions and Billions of Demons” Richard Lewontin, b. 1929, PhD Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University)
Teaching Natural Selection in Stalin's USSR, or genes and chromosomes for that matter, got you thrown in prison, and out of a job. My teacher in Molecular Genetics was banned from teaching in the U.S.S.R. for being suspected of accepting Darwin's theory. Ronald Reagan (”who shall live always in my prayers” he would say) asked for him BY NAME and the USSR allowed him to come to the USA.
You should read his book and learn something about history before you make yourself look like even more of a fool.
Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science- Valery Soyfer
Here is a snippet from another source about how far from “embracing” Darwinism, it was a punishable offense under Stalin.
http://www.globalpolitician.com/21228-russia
Following a speech he gave at a conference in 1948 denouncing Mendelian genetics as “reactionary and decadent”, Lysenko rose to prominence. Geneticists who opposed Lysenkoism were dispatched to the gulag as “enemies of the Soviet people”. Most confessed to their “errors” in propounding Mendel's and Darwin's teachings - and, consequently, kept their jobs.