In that regard, Lysenkoism was much more limited. I believe Stalin endorsed some kind of “winter wheat” program on that basis, which of course didn’t work. This had disasterous consequences, but still it did not have the scope “Climate Change” policy.
Certainly I do have many misgivings about the “Climate Change” agenda. Obviously this is nothing like a scientific question as it has been understood in the past, and it is analogous to Lysenkoism in that it affects broad social policy. It’s different in that it isn’t based on a single idiosyncratic view, but a whole community of professional scientists. Of course it’s obvious how dissenters and skeptics are squeezed out, but what if they’re right?
The latest that I see is that the deterioration of the West Antarctic ice sheet is accelerating, and has passed a tipping point, so we’ll see.
Scope? Limited?
I see a strong parallel with the Left’s “Settled Science.”
“....Support from Joseph Stalin gave Lysenko even more momentum and popularity. In 1935, Lysenko compared his opponents in biology to the peasants who still resisted the Soviet government’s collectivization strategy, saying that by opposing his theories the traditional geneticists were setting themselves against Marxism. Stalin was in the audience when this speech was made, and he was the first one to stand and applaud, calling out “Bravo, Comrade Lysenko. Bravo.” This event emboldened Lysenko and gave him and his ally Prezent free rein to slander the geneticists who still spoke out against him. Many of Lysenkoism’s opponents, such as his former mentor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, were imprisoned or even executed because of Lysenko’s and Prezent’s denunciations.”...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
The latest that I see is that the deterioration of the West Antarctic ice sheet is accelerating, and has passed a tipping point, so we’ll see.
Don’t know if this helps: