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This story is an example of the dangers of centralised power and cronyism and less to do with the individuals rights or wrongs. Lysenko had the support of Stal

• raphlinus 6y ago
  That's actually the point I'm trying to make here. The HCQ boosters have the support of a large faction of a major political party in the US, including a governor who recently hosted a roundtable featuring a number of prominent modern-day Lysenkoists including Dr. Atlas.
• Nasrudith 6y ago
  I personally saw Lysenkoism as essentially extreme political doctrine being indistinguishable from extreme religious fundamentalism. It looks very similiar towards US protestant reaction to evolution because it went against literalist dogma that itself ignored that there are two contradictory genesis accounts. The idea of any difference from birth was anathema - never mind that theories themselves would have noted enviromental changes via mutation via outlier results at the very least. Never mind that selective breeding is older than /writing/ and ranchers would be aware that it isn't just a difference in feeding and training between riding and plough horses. In both cases the very suggestion that their foundation could be wrong meant that those who disagreed couldn't be merely wrong but had to be actively and maliciously trying to keep "the truth" down. Of course the two explanations are perfectly compatible - Stalin and his cronies would see "acceptance of the Bourgeoisie pseudoscience of genetics" as a potentially deadly sign of weakness to allow within their domain which is why it would be unthinkable to accept.