Cuban cows
by Devine, James
21 May 2002 17:54 UTC
from SLATE's summary of today's news from major US papers:
An article in
the [Wall Street JOURNAL] says that Fidel Castro is pushing
his scientists
to clone milking-cows, with the goal being to replicate a famously
productive, and
Levins Lewontin on Lysenko, was Re: Cuban cows
by Louis Proyect
21 May 2002 19:40 UTC
Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins Lewontin, _The Dialectical
Biologist_. They don't treat Lysenko at all like this. See Chapter 7,
The Problem of Lysenkoism. There were many elements involved
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from SLATE's summary of today's news from major US papers: An article in
the [Wall Street JOURNAL] says that Fidel Castro is
I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The intent
is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Lysenko? What does he have to
I wrote:
I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Fidel -- or one of his advisors -- has
partaken of some grass grown in drawers under fluorescent lights. The
intent
is good, but Lysenko's ghost is hovering near-by.
Louis writes:
Lysenko? What does he have to do with cloning? Leaving aside the
Lysenko is relevant, as I've been informed by a friend who's an expert on
Soviet agriculture, because Lysenko became popular since he proposed a quick
technical solution to a serious political-economic problem. Cuban's problems
are completely different than those of the Stalin-era USSR, but there
When I visited Cuba along with Jim Devine, one of the greatest sources of
pride that I recall was the milk program.
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I missed that part, probably since I was wandering about looking for a way
to get my glasses fixed.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
When I visited Cuba along with Jim Devine, one of the
greatest sources of
pride that I recall was the milk program.
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Subject: [PEN-L:26138] RE: Re: Re: Cuban cows
I missed that part, probably since I was wandering about looking for a way
to get my glasses fixed.
Jim Devine
Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't know whether Lysenko's reputation revolved around quick, technical
solutions. I was under the impression that he was infamous for quackery
under pressure from Stalin.
Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins Lewontin, _The Dialectical
Biologist_. They
Lou, you've referred off and on to Levins Lewontin, _The Dialectical
Biologist_. They don't treat Lysenko at all like this. See Chapter 7,
The Problem of Lysenkoism. There were many elements involved, and it
was no matter of mere quackery.
Carrol
Yes, of course. There is another side to
Fidel Castro is pushing his scientists
to clone milking-cows, with the goal being to replicate a famously
productive, and now deceased, Cuban bovine beast. . . . The idea, according
to the paper, was to provide families with
miniature milk-cows that they could keep in their apartments. The
LP: Yes, of course. There is another side to Lysenko. In fact Stephen Jay
Gould treats him with considerable respect in one of his essays although I
can't remember the technical details.
if early-onset Alzheimer's hasn't kicked in yet, the problem was not Lysenko
himself, who was simply updating
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
Cuba is at the forefront of pharmaceutical research, from what I can
gather, especially considering that it is a small, poor country. I assume
that they are also working with genetic engineering and cloning as well.
I would appreciate learning more about this.
Cuba has been especially
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