> This type of thinking is exactly what led to mass starvation in the Soviet economy. In this case, the problem was indeed that Soviet "scientists" - as bsedlm

> This type of thinking is exactly what led to mass starvation in the Soviet economy. In this case, the problem was indeed that Soviet "scientists" - as bsedlm postulates - "were making up theories to 'scientifically' (but actually, just academically) justify whatever the ruling powers want to do" - in this case lysenkoism: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism