People shit on the USSR’s Lysenko, but have no problems with the field of epigenitics.
I think that my brain is bleeding now.
these are the most wacky shit I’ve seen to invalidate soviet science, like they went to space, hydrogen bomb, made computers and etc with thoughts and prayers
They invented and built all of it from within the Gulags using rocks and tree branches.
Lysenko’s “pseudoscience” was one of the reasons all the people in besieged Leningrad didn’t starve to death, because he found out that you don’t need to plant full potato, but only it’s “eyes”, every “eye” can grow into full potato plant, and the rest of it can be used to feed people.
But yeah, saving people is useless to muricans, so it doesn’t matter.
you don’t need to plant full potato, but only it’s “eyes”, every “eye” can grow into full potato plant, and the rest of it can be used to feed people.
Wait, I want a source on that claim that Lysenko made that… surely, Gregor Mendel did it first?
fyi mendel was ‘rediscovered’ and there was a bit of difficulty in having mendelian inheritance work with darwinian natural selection / adaptationism.
can look up the ‘modern synthesis’ to learn a bit about it. a marxist who talks about it with a specialty in biology is richaed c lewontin. he has a massey lecture called ‘biology as ideology: the doctrine of dna’ and you can listen to it on youtube or read the associated publication which is a short book that is a essentially a transcription.
no biology background needed.
contemporary discourse is really a poisoned well, philosophers and scientists i whose work i admire seem to shut off their brains when it comes to lysenko.
i cant read the stuff you shared, i did read an english translation of i think a committee meeting and it was entirely reasonable.
they did make references to things i didnt understand, and still would like to go through, like morganism and morgan’s work.
my assessment was lyenko had an appropriate approach to the empirical evidence and methods of the time. hopefully i can try to parse the works you shared. i really find it disapointing that the rather unique conditions of the environment where the task to grow sustenance is almost never mentioned by opponents.
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