>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 Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
