Re: RE: Re: Levins & Lewontin on Lysenko, was Re: Cuban cows

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>if early-onset Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in yet, the problem was not Lysenko
>himself, who was simply updating Lamarck in a period when the alternative
>Darwin-Mendel theory hadn't completely taken hold, even in the U.S. The
>problem was that Lysenko's theory became The Party Line, a line which had
>state power behind it. Those who doubted, suffered.
>JD

This is a link for the chapter on Lysenkoism in Helen Sheehan's "Marxism
and the Philosophy of Science", a truly great book.

http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/lysenko.htm

Louis Proyect
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