Lysenkoism is making a comeback in Russia. Will Deplorables make it mandatory teaching here?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Although it’s impossible to say for sure, Trofim Lysenko probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history. Other dubious scientific achievements have cut thousands upon thousands of lives short: dynamite, poison gas, atomic bombs. But Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, condemned perhaps millions of people to starvation through bogus agricultural research—and did so without hesitation. Only guns and gunpowder, the collective product of many researchers over several centuries, can match such carnage.

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On the other hand, there’s something depressingly familiar about the Lysenko affair, since ideology perverts science in the Western world as well. Nearly 40 percent of Americans believe that God created human beings in their present form, sans evolution; nearly 60 percent of Republicans attribute global temperature changes to nonhuman causes.


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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/

[2naSalit]

1. Food for thought...nt

[Roland99]

2. I see what you did there.

[yardwork]

3. Anti-vaxxer Jill Stein is probably a fan.