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But the phenomenon of prenatal influence on post-natal outcomes -- which can then impact subsequent generations, say if the non-diabetic child becomes a mother -- reminds us of Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet scientist who preached the inheritance of acquired traits.

Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us Stanton Peele 2010

But the phenomenon of prenatal influence on post-natal outcomes -- which can then impact subsequent generations, say if the non-diabetic child becomes a mother -- reminds us of Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet scientist who preached the inheritance of acquired traits.

Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us Stanton Peele 2010

This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union.

No Need to Panic About Global Warming 2012

"In our Soviet Union, comrades, people are not born," declared the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko under Stalin.

Never Say Die Thomas Meaney 2011

The charismatic peasant Trofim Lysenko ingratiated himself to cpmmunist party leaders and wound up forcing an ideologically driven agriculture contradicted by science.

Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011

But the phenomenon of prenatal influence on post-natal outcomes -- which can then impact subsequent generations, say if the non-diabetic child becomes a mother -- reminds us of Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet scientist who preached the inheritance of acquired traits.

Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us Stanton Peele 2010

In the 1930s, a Russian agronomist and dedicated member of the party, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, had argued that the Mendelian concept of heredity was a capitalist fiction, that Mendel had it backward.19 This eccentric idea was perfectly consistent with Marxism, a self-described scientific philosophy, and indeed was derived from it.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

In the 1930s, a Russian agronomist and dedicated member of the party, Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, had argued that the Mendelian concept of heredity was a capitalist fiction, that Mendel had it backward.19 This eccentric idea was perfectly consistent with Marxism, a self-described scientific philosophy, and indeed was derived from it.

Deathride John Mosier 2010

Ariel, I don't see one of my comments here — but if you need an example, go to the library and look up Trofim Lysenko, and "Lysenkoism."

Dawkins Lashes Out 2005

Stalin found Darwin too bourgeois, and encharged his henchman, pseudo-scientist Trofim Lysenko, with stamping out all evolution-based science.

Dawkins Lashes Out 2005