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Last week, in his first official statement, he released a blast at Chemist Spitzer. Spitzer, he said, had recently written a letter to the Chemical and Engineering News protesting the magazine's panning of Soviet Geneticist Trofim Lysenko. Spitzer argued that Lysenko's experiments in genetics, on which Moscow now bases its biological party line (TIME, Sept. 6), and which most of the world's geneticists consider unscientific, had not had a fair examination in the U.S. Then he went on to defend Soviet policy on science and culture in general...
...genetics. But under Stalin the great school of Soviet geneticists led by Nikolai Vavilov has been utterly destroyed. Its members, who agreed in general with Western geneticists, have been disgraced and removed from their university posts. Some have died in forced labor camps. An obscure plant-breeder named Trofim Lysenko has been raised by the Soviet state to a sort of genetic dictator. Any Russian scientist who wants to work in genetics must bow low to Lysenko, though his doctrines are scientifically naive (TIME...
...Communist high command, acting through the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has declared that the genetics of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms) is the only genetics that may be taught in Soviet institutions. The Morgan-Mendelian theory (that heredity is controlled by genes in the cells), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., has been forbidden and its adherents disciplined...
...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...
...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...