Word: lysenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world, fresh, ignorant of what has preceded them and what is expected of them, keen to observe, and averse to acting as they are told. To create a uniform world, one would have to devise a way of making acquired characteristics inheritable: something that the charlatan biologist. Trofin Lysenko, promised Stalin, who desperately desired such power...
...rival camps in the academic community. Their demands are not for discussion but for subordination. If "Evolutionary Biology" is removed from the Core Curriculum, it will be a victory for ideology over academic freedom. If political dogma dominates and bullies science as it did in the frightening example of Lysenko, the freedom to know will have no meaning...