Doyle writes: > In the U.S. and Western Europe due to cold war pressures Lysenkoism or > environmental impact on inheritance was science anathema and a very good > example of the tyrannical aspects of big science.
true, but as a Sovietologist friend of mine points out, Stalin's regime went much too far in backing Lysenko, making his ideas part of the orthodoxy of Soviet big science -- because they were grasping at straws (as it were) in an effort to deal with problems with Soviet agriculture. When L's efforts didn't pay off, it was a minor disaster. In their DIALECTICAL BIOLOGY, Levins & Lewontin have a good analysis of Lysenko. They are far from being apologists for "big science." -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
