Lysenko v. the World

Over the last few years British and American learned journals have devoted considerable space to the Soviet genetics controversy. Most of the articles are openly anti-Soviet. Few writers have maintained that there is complete freedom of conscience and discussion and none have attempted to defend Lysenko's theories. He has been dubbed usurper, charlatan, adventurer, etc.. ad [unclear: na'isean]. The controversy has been conducted on an extremely low [unclear: irteiectua] level and instead of examining Lysenko's theories and practice our learned biologists have used the controversy—some of them deiiberately and with [unclear: conterrptible] dishonesty—to engage in yet another sphere of the anti-Soviet campaign. Lysenko's theories, it is alleged, being based on a few back garden experiments come more or less out of the blue and, since be is a political adventurer and his theories "conform to Marxism the rude [unclear: Bojfheiks] have taken, them up and made Lysenko a Commissar.

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