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When ideology dictates science policy: Trofim Lysenko and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

One of the more infamous figures in an otherwise accomplished pantheon of scientists was a man named Trofim Lysenko, who rejected Mendelian genetics and espoused a form of agricultural pseudoscience. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is likely to be much shorter than Lysenko's in...

When ideology dictates science policy: Trofim Lysenko and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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One of the more infamous figures in an otherwise accomplished pantheon of scientists was a man named Trofim Lysenko, who rejected Mendelian genetics and espoused a form of agricultural pseudoscience.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is likely to be much shorter than Lysenko's in...

Trofim Lysenko Studying Lysenko, I would have been shocked if I had known that history would repeat itself in the United States, where a similar figure would promote thoroughly debunked theories about...

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One of the more infamous figures in an otherwise accomplished pantheon of scientists was a man named Trofim Lysenko, who rejected Mendelian genetics and espoused a form of agricultural pseudoscience. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is likely to be much shorter than Lysenko's in... Trofim Lysenko Studying Lysenko, I would have been shocked if I had known that history would repeat itself in the United States, where a similar figure would promote thoroughly debunked theories about childhood vaccines and elevate his ideology above science at every turn.

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Thanks to elections and Presidential term limits, Robert F.

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