Word: lysenko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally won this longstanding argument is Geneticist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenko rose to his present eminence by being able to make his science toe the party line. Although Lysenko has gained increasing recognition in Russia, most Western and some Soviet geneticists have regarded his party-line genetics as scientifically naive...
This summer, at the eight-day meeting of the Lenin Academy, Lysenko rose to insist on his views once again. Several scientists, including Professor Zhebrak, tried to start the old argument. It was then that Lysenko sprang his big surprise: his theory had been officially endorsed by the Central Committee...
...noted members: Physiologist L. A. Orbeli and Morphologist I. I. Shmalgauzen; liquidated a laboratory on cytogenetics (the study of cell formation), and accused its director, world-famous Geneticist N. P. Dubinin, of having taken "antiscientific positions." All textbooks on biology were ordered rewritten; teaching will be oriented to the Lysenko doctrine...
...Soviet's Zhebrak was on solid, safe ground. But he took another dangerous step forward. He admitted the world's low opinion of Soviet genetics. There is an impression abroad, he said, that all Soviet geneticists are followers of Lysenko. This is not so, said Zhebrak. Many Soviet geneticists "are sharply critical of [Lysenko's] theories...
...nearly two years Zhebrak's indiscretion went unpunished. Then, a few weeks ago, the storm began to break over his head. Three devoutly Communist poets, writing in the very nonscientific Literary Gazette, keelhauled him for agreeing with foreigners who do not admire Lysenko. "Under the mask of giving an objective account of the state of genetics in the U.S.S.R.," wrote the three poets, "Zhebrak takes up complete solidarity with the most reactionary American professors...