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Thursday, July 22, 2004
| Category: Skepticism The Skeptic's Dictionary has a site that contains some facinating entries. I found it while googling for Lysenkoism. It was due to Lysenko's efforts that many real scientists, those who were geneticists or who rejected Lamarckism in favor of natural selection, were sent to the gulags or simply disappeared from the USSR.Why was I looking up Lysenkoism? Because PE Philip Stott mentioned it in an article on EnviroSpin Watch. And in Russia, 'global warming' has been likened to Lysenkoism.And on Tech Central Station an article detailing some of what has been going on in Russia recently including this quote from the economic adviser of President Putin, Andrei Illarionov: 'That ideological base can be juxtaposed and compared with man-hating totalitarian ideology with which we had the bad fortune to deal during the 20th century, such as National Socialism, Marxism, Eugenics, Lysenkoism and so on. All methods of distorting information existing in the world have been committed to prove the alleged validity of these theories. Misinformation, falsification, fabrication, mythology, propaganda. Because what is offered cannot be qualified in any other way than myth, nonsense and absurdity.' |
