I personally saw Lysenkoism as essentially extreme political doctrine being indistinguishable from extreme religious fundamentalism. It looks very similiar towa

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.