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That is not true and you know it……………………

In the USSR, Muller supervised a large and productive lab, and organized work on medical genetics. Most of his work involved further explorations of genetics and radiation. There he completed his eugenics book, Out of the Night. By 1936, however, Stalin’s repressive policies and the rise of Lysenkoism was making the USSR an increasingly problematic place to live and work. Muller and much of the Russian genetics community did what they could to oppose Trofim Lysenko and his Larmarckian evolutionary theory, but Muller was soon forced to leave the Soviet Union after Stalin read a translation of his eugenics book and was “displeased by it, and...ordered an attack prepared against it.”[12]

But nice try.

Then maybe this is a fraud or I’ve misunderstood what the letter writer was talking about here.

“Hermann J. Muller’s 1936 Letter to Stalin
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geneticist H.J. Muller to Joseph Stalin advocating the creation of a ... eugenics movement, Jewish scholars, Hermann J. Muller, Joseph Stalin, ...
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count-your-change asked;

Was this the same Muller that offered a eugenics breeding program to Stalin?

You responded with a cut a paste from a document that indicates that there was indeed a Muller that offered Stalin, or at least promoted the idea of eugenics to Stalin.

A link to the short-cut pdf, which opens in "google docs" which one and all can see is most likely to be the same source that you copied and pasted from (but failed yourself to provide a link to, even as you complain);Herman J. Muller's 1936 letter to Stalin, from The Mankind Quarterly 43(3), Spring 2003 pp 305-318

So the answer is yes, this IS the same Herman J. Muller that you quoted in your post #18

“There are no hypotheses, alternative to the principle of evolution with its “tree of life,” that any competent biologist of today takes seriously. Moreover, the principle is so important for an understanding of the world we live in and of ourselves that the public in general, including students taking biology in high school, should be made aware of it, and of the fact that it is firmly established, even as the rotundity of the earth is firmly established. ~ Herman J Muller

underlining for emphasis my own

Not only was this apparently the same Muller, but it also demonstrates where the logical outcome of strictly materialist thinking leads. It did lead to "eugenics" in Muller's case, although he pitched the idea as a positive, in that it could be used to "help improve" the human race, or in the case of his pitch, at least the Soviet Socialists portion of humanity.

Maybe Lysenco and Lamarck did us all an accidental favor!