Comrade Bush

Scientific American has an editorial entitled Bush-League Lysenkoism: The White House bends science to its will. It’s a harsh indictment of the current administration’s scientific policy.

Starting in the 1930s, the Soviets spurned genetics in favor of Lysenkoism, a fraudulent theory of heredity inspired by Communist ideology. Doing so crippled agriculture in the U.S.S.R. for decades. You would think that bad precedent would have taught President George W. Bush something. But perhaps he is no better at history than at science.

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