J.B. S. Haldane was one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century and played an important role in the ...

And in Russia, disagreeing with Stalin on any issue was extremely dangerous. So Lysenkoist theory came to dominate Soviet biology for decades, despite leading to multiple agricultural disasters.

Furthermore, in some situations, basically sf devices are considered real science—the most extreme example being Lysenkoism, a motif lovingly ridiculed by the Strugatsky brothers, but foreshadowed in ...

In 2024, the Liberal Party, under the leadership of Scott Morrison, proposed the Communications Legislation Amendment ...

Dissenters to the theory, also referred to as Lysenkoism, often found themselves in prison, if not worse. Today Lysenko's tenet is largely discredited, yet there are still a few reports published ...

Some pseudosciences originated in the pre-scientific era, such as astrology and acupuncture. Others developed as part of an ideology, such as Lysenkoism, or as a response to perceived threats to an ...

False religious belief, smuggled into a leaky and amateurish laboratory, produce incorrect objects like telepathy or ESP; false ideological biases create instances like Lysenkoism. Once these social ...

As I see it, the best way to understand what’s going on is to look at other countries’ histories; specifically the strange history of Lysenkoism in Josef Stalin’s Russia. Just for the record ...

The dark side of the Soviet state under Stalin is investigated in the episode dedicated to Lysenkoism. The Long March was the Chinese Red Army's escape from the Kuomintang in 1934/5. Mao Zedong ...