Word: lysenkoism
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...disdain for accepted thought, no specific scientific references, no index and no bibliography. Kiss Maerth, who is described as a man born in Yugoslavia who spent many years in a Chinese Buddhist monastery and now lives at Lake Como, seems never to have heard of Lamarckian biology, T.D. Lysenko's bogus theory that Communism could be inherited as an acquired characteristic, or even about the lowly planarian worms, which were forced to cannibalize their siblings in hope that their modest laboratory lessons would be passed on to future generations...
...lives in London, cannot have been surprised. The Soviets had tried to subdue him before, once locking him in an insane asylum for 19 days until worldwide protests embarrassed the government into releasing him. Medvedev's indignant dissidence (expressed in The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko and A Question of Madness) had marked him as a troublesome enemy of partiinost, that spirit of party orthodoxy that so many other Russian intellectuals, such as Pasternak, Daniel and Sinyavski, Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, have been un able to accommodate. Medvedev's twin brother Roy, author of a massive anti-Stalinist...
...writings about Stalin, he is respected both by dissidents and many orthodox Communists. Shortly after Medvedev's expulsion, Soviet authorities tried to have his twin brother, Zhores, a brilliant biologist, declared insane for writing a critical book about Stalin's crackpot geneticist, T.D. Lysenko...
Medvedev had long been an irritant to the Soviet authorities. His first sin, in 1969, was to write The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, a chronicle of Stalin's favorite scientist, a crackpot biologist who was the final, arbitrary word in Russian genetics for more than two decades. His second sin, in 1971, was to write The Medvedev Papers, a tale of Soviet censorship and suppression of intellectuals. Neither book was published in the U.S.S.R., but Soviet officials were so angered by their publication in the West that they finally confined Medvedev to a madhouse for what they...
...view, Herrnstein later notes that "not only the vulgar accusations of 'racism' and 'facism,' but also the political paranoia can be found in both the Russian and domestic Marxist reactions to the application of biology to the study of man..." He compares current radical views with those of T.D. Lysenko, a Russian anti-geneticist...