Re: [Pen-l] Epigenetics

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doyle writes:
> In the U.S. and Western Europe due to cold war pressures Lysenkoism or
> environmental impact on inheritance was science anathema and a very good
> example of the tyrannical aspects of big science.

true, but as a Sovietologist friend of mine points out, Stalin's
regime went much too far in backing Lysenko, making his ideas part of
the orthodoxy of Soviet big science -- because they were grasping at
straws (as it were) in an effort to deal with problems with Soviet
agriculture. When L's efforts didn't pay off, it was a minor disaster.

In their DIALECTICAL BIOLOGY, Levins & Lewontin have a good analysis
of Lysenko. They are far from being apologists for "big science."

-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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