Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Unsightly Role. Pravda soon joined the attack. What annoyed Pravda most: Zhebrak's heretical belief that there is no difference between Soviet and non-Soviet science.* "Zhebrak as a Soviet scientist," cried Pravda, "should have unmasked the class meaning of the struggle which is taking place around questions of genetics. But blinded by bourgeois prejudices, by detestable fawning on bourgeois science, he has adopted the attitude of the enemy's camp. . . . It turns out that there is a so-called pure science for Zhebrak. . . . It appears that there is no progressive Soviet biological science; there is no reactionary...
...Williams books inspired Lewis to write a trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) dealing with the forces of Good and Evil at war on the planets of the solar system. One element common to all these stories: the villain of the piece is always a scientist...
...Louis. This attempt to match the atmospheric vibrations to changes in the weather may produce a new and valuable method of weather forecasting (the Navy has bet its $25,000 on the possibility that it will). Father Macelwane, though hopeful, is as cautious about his work as any other scientist: "We don't know what the vibrations are or what causes them. We just know they are present...