RE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

and the world wonders why we Americans cling to the right to bear arms...
John Ferrell

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From: "Vitaliy" <spam@maksimov.org>
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Subject: [OT] Bad science bad theories (was: Measuring hole diameters 
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> Russell McMahon wrote:
>> ... or used a shaman instead, with predicatble consequences.
>> Lysenko? May have wrong name. New genetic theory. Allowed them to fit in
>> an
>> extra crop cycle per season.
> ...
>> The point being that bad science lead to bad theories BUT the ability to
>> question same was legally banned leading to ... .
>
> Just a little personal comment to put this into the "human" perspective...
> my grandmother lived through the famine in the 1930's USSR, and told us 
> how
> she and her sister dig tunnels to steal frozen potatoes from the pigs to
> survive. Supposedly, they had it much better than the Ukrainians, many of
> whom did in fact starve to death. The government would not only take away
> and export all the grain, they (Lysenkoites) also told the peasants when 
> to
> sow the fields, regardless of the soil conditions. It's not difficult to
> imagine what happens to wheat that is sown into frozen earth, or soil that
> is too dry.
>
> Vitaliy
>
>
> "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst
> state, an intolerable one."
> Thomas Paine
>
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