The New Lysenkoism | City Journal

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 that required Soviet biologists to ignore evolution and the genetics of plants. The great biologist Edward O. Wilson died on December 26. Few readers of […]

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