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The Lysenko effect : the politics of science

Paperback • 2005 • English

The Lysenko effect : the politics of science

By Nils Roll-Hansen

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About the book

Ukrainian agronomist T. D. Lysenko (1898-1976) was the leader of an influential Soviet agrobiological school that rejected standard genetics and instead promoted a brand of pseudoscience that held sway among Soviet biologists for over twenty-five years. The dominance of Lysenko's pseudoscientific ideas has been characterized as the biggest scandal of 20th-century science. That it happened under a regime that took particular pride in building its policy on science makes the affair particularly in...Show more

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9781591022626

Publisher

Amherst, N.Y : Humanity Books

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

The Lysenko effect : the politics of science

Format

Paperback

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