[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Please educate yourself on Lysenko.

In Defense of Lysenko, JBS Haldane, Darwin Medalist, co-founder of the Modern Synthesis.

"Vavilov still directs research on a vast scale. So far from having been muzzled for his alleged anti-Darwinian views he communicated seventeen papers on genetical topics to the Moscow Academy of Sciences between January 1st and April 10th of 1940. (Vavilov's name is now less prominent, but up till June 1941 the output of genetical work showed no sign of abatement.)"

Vavilov was sent to the gulag in 1940. He died in 1943.

[allmendream]

Trofim Lysenko's campaign against genetics and biology during the era of Stalin and Khrushchev is one of the great tragedies of modern science. In the purges that Lysenko (1898-1976) instigated, even the greatest of Soviet scientists were not safe. Only in 1964, when Khrushchev fell from power and when massive crop failures revealed the emptiness of the peasant-scientist's theories, did Lysenko lose favor. Even now, his long shadow stretches over the countries of the former Soviet Union as they deal with the disastrous consequences of Lysenkoist policies on science, agriculture, medicine....

From Lysenko and the Tragedy of Soviet Science
by Valery N Soyfer

[Oztrich Boy]

In Defense of Lysenko, JBS Haldane,

Right Haldane was a Stalinist. Social and religious outlooks trump scientific ones, because they are formed earlier. Even those few who learn a scientific view can frequently relapse