Lysenkoism is a prime example where an ideology influenced the researcher so much that it all broke down. tl:dr for the younger folks: Darwinism was disliked b

Lysenkoism is a prime example where an ideology influenced the researcher so much that it all broke down. tl:dr for the younger folks: Darwinism was disliked by the Soviets as it was bourgeois pseudoscience implying that the people are different. Many geneticists and biologists were fired, shot or went to the gulag. Lysenko was a agriculturist who became famous by inventing an alternative biology similar to Lamarckism where organisms inherit acquired traits. This (most of the time) didn't work but you couldn't do research showing the opposite, Stalin loved it too much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism