It was all politics, just as it is now. People already very much knew how to conduct proper scientific endeavors, but the Communist Party wasn’t going to do anything so “bourgeois” as practice actual science.
I’ve long thought of Republicans talking about “true conservatism” sounding almost exactly like the Communists in their delusions, now we see the culmination of their ridiculous ideology and their efforts to inflict it on everyone else.
They now have their very own Lysenko. Hopefully it doesn’t get to the execution of Bobby Brainworm’s opponents:
The official support emboldened Lysenko and gave him and Prezent free rein to slander any geneticists who still spoke out against him. After Lysenko became head of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences, classical genetics began to be called “fascist science”[28] and many of Lysenkoism’s opponents, such as his former mentor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, were imprisoned or executed, although not on Lysenko’s personal orders.[29][22]
The sheer insanity did not confine itself to only genetics, either. Keep in mind this was in the mid-20th century, FFS. Killing who knows how many millions as a result…
It was all politics, just as it is now. People already very much knew how to conduct proper scientific endeavors, but the Communist Party wasn’t going to do anything so “bourgeois” as practice actual science.
I’ve long thought of Republicans talking about “true conservatism” sounding almost exactly like the Communists in their delusions, now we see the culmination of their ridiculous ideology and their efforts to inflict it on everyone else.
They now have their very own Lysenko. Hopefully it doesn’t get to the execution of Bobby Brainworm’s opponents:
The sheer insanity did not confine itself to only genetics, either. Keep in mind this was in the mid-20th century, FFS. Killing who knows how many millions as a result…