The shit that gets spread about him might be the most cartoonishly evil sounding things like bring responsible for every famine in every Socialist country and thinking genes weren’t real. Anyone have any good sources about the man and his work?

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    1 year ago

    Oh damn, there’s four Lysenkoists now? That’s a huge boost to their numbers. I would join them, but the human-ape hybrid thing is a completely myth, so he’s lost my vote.

    You’re right of course, and I could’ve been better in my wording there, his experiments did sometimes yield positive results, that was most likely a result of epigenetics, though he himself did not understand this, as genetics was not developed enough at the time to properly explain it. It was much more of a coincidence than anything else.