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Lysenko was not a scientist, he was a charlatan who caused real scientists to be killed or sent to the gulags.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

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

His theories were discredited eventually and declared fraudulent.

Of course Stalin had anyone proposing a solution to the crop disasters of forced collectivism, he had them work on improving crop yields. Lysenko was supported by Stalin not because he was a success but he appeared to ‘talk the talk’ and to find a convenient scapegoat for the Stalinist agricultural failure in scientific genetics which Lysenko succeeded in branding a bourgois pseudoscience oriented towards conspiracy against Soviet agriculture.

Lysenko and Lysenkoism are mentioned when we spot a scientific fraud in our midst who uses propaganda and political power to further their scientific fraud and who silences opposition via friends in powerful political places.

Sounds exactly like Al Gore.

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And all this time I thought that Lysenko was an all-purpose cleaner.....

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Lysenko was not a scientist, he was a charlatan who caused real scientists to be killed or sent to the gulags.

Yes he was scientist (biologist and agronomist) but a really pisspoor one.

However the wikipedia article does sound eerily familiar with today's AGW politically correctness and governmental punishment of scientists that dare not tote the AGW fantasy.