[lentulusgracchus]

Lysenkoism was taken apart like a cheap watch 50 years ago -- and by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, no less. Saying that this bagatelle is Lysenkoism, is condemning it.

Old wine, new skins, etc.

[Sherman Logan]

Sorry, perhaps I could have worded my comment better.

Labeling this claim Lysenkoism does not mean it is Lysenkoism and as such untrue.

Any more than Lysenko and his followers labeling Mendelianism as imperialistic and anti-socialist made it untrue.

We are finding more and more evidence than DNA is not as immutable as once thought. It is now believed that some viruses, for example, can make permanent changes to DNA.

In other words, it ain’t as simple as we once thought.

But the theory presented in this paper will be proven or disproven by the scientific method, not by labeling it.

Just as studies showing differences in average human intelligence of groups are not disproven by labeling them racist. It is what it is.