".....Support from Joseph Stalin gave Lysenko even more momentum and popularity. In 1935, Lysenko compared his opponents in biology to the peasants who still resisted the Soviet government's collectivization strategy, saying that by opposing his theories the traditional geneticists were setting themselves against Marxism.
Stalin was in the audience when this speech was made, and he was the first one to stand and applaud, calling out "Bravo, Comrade Lysenko. Bravo." This event emboldened Lysenko and gave him and his ally Prezent free rein to slander the geneticists who still spoke out against him.
Many of Lysenkoism's opponents, such as his former mentor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, were imprisoned or even executed because of Lysenko's and Prezent's denunciations."...
I recall a very funny episode in South Park where Eric Cartman supposedly became psychic after a fall from a rooftop while trying to fly. In the passage of the story he was beset by other psychics from the Psychic Detectives Union upset with his scabbing. They fought using their sheer mind power (along with various sounds) and then parted when nothing happened. Later you see a news blurb where Eric had given a tip that the killer was indeed a group of killers holed up in a local motel. The same hotel where these Psychic Detectives were staying. A bloodbath ensued and they were all disposed of.