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Direct linkPeacock, Margaret – Science & Education, 2015
The demise of Soviet genetics in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s has stood for many as a prime example of the damage that social and political dogmatism can do when allowed to meddle in the workings of science. In particular, the story of Trofim Lysenko's rise to preeminence and the fall of Mendelian genetics in the Soviet Union has become a lasting…
Descriptors: Genetics, Biology, Scientists, Political Influences
