Talking with the lower echelon employees of publishing reminds me of a description I once read about the mutual embarrassment of Western and Soviet biologists when they talked about genetics.

A strange thing is happening to the venerable magazine Scientific American. It has decided to kick its science-loving readers in the teeth and embrace a modern equivalent of Lysenkoism—the doctrine ...

Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef Stalin. He was an advocate of the theory that characteristics acquired by ...

CONSERVATIVE LYSENKOISM….THE DEFINITIVE REPORT….Chris Mooney emailed me yesterday to draw my attention to a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists about how deeply the ideological tentacles of ...

The Narrative says that only right-wing nuts are against Science™. Well, consider the frankly horrifying case of Dr. Kenneth Zucker, as reported by Jesse Singal in New York magazine. Excerpts: An ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present study analyzes specific traits of Lysenkoism dogmas as they were reflected in Soviet hydrobiology. As a case study, I use the ...

In “Change Is Coming to the Practice of Medicine” (Letters, Aug. 2), your letter writers show that history repeats itself. Biological research in the U.S.S.R. was crippled for decades because it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. When you have a question about the physical world, there are a lot of ...

Trofim Lysenko: His refusal to acknowledge scientific fact led to famine and death on an enormous scale. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was Joseph Stalin’s favorite scientist. He rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of a new pseudo-science of hybridization which had strong political appeal to Stalin and his ...