Published May 19, 2022
Trofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism
Delve into the rise and fall of Trofim Lysenko, whose pseudoscientific theories disrupted Soviet agriculture, leading to widespread famine and regressing genetic science while illustrating the dangers of political interference in scientific research.
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