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...scientist-darling of Communist theologians is Soviet Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko's basic idea seems to be that living forms (like nations) need to be shaken up by a kind of genetic revolution. Thus shaken, a tomato or wheat plant is capable of very rapid development. In proving this thesis, Lysenko is short on controlled experimentation and long on thundering Marxist phrases like "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Many non-Communist geneticists consider him a politically motivated fraud...
Last week another Soviet scientist was cowering under an ideological hurricane stirred up by an anti-Lysenko reference he had made in the U.S. weekly, Science, nearly two years...
...recent issue of TIME [Feb. 11] there was an article in which the work of the Russian scientist, Lysenko, was reviewed. Far be it from me to belittle Lysenko's work, but have you kept abreast of developments in Indiana...
Vague, Amateurish Lysenko...
...your review of Lysenko's book, Heredity and its Variability [TIME, Feb. 11], you conclude: "If Lysenko's . . . methods [of stimulating organisms to new directions of growth] really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs of man." It may be stated that methods like those of Lysenko have been tested for decades before his time by friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko...