http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/lysenko.htm
He was capable of the crudest anti-intellectualism, remarking on one occasion: "It is better to know less, but to know just what is necessary for practice." He also was inclined to enunciations of the wildest voluntarism: "In order to obtain a certain result, You must want to obtain precisely that result; if you want to obtain a certain result, you will obtain it .... I need only such people as will obtain the results I need".

Lysenko . . .became more and more virulent in attacking geneticists and contrasting their "useless scholasticism" with his own great "practical successes." He began to speak of class struggle in science and declared in his speech at the 2nd all-union congress of shock collective farmers in 1935 that "a class enemy is always an enemy whether he is a scientist or not." Stalin, who was present, exclaimed at the end of his speech "Bravo, Comrade Lysenko, bravo."

• Mike, how about McCartney? - alexander - December 11, 2001 - 21:55 UTC
  • maybe in one of my high school classes - carefuluniverse - December 12, 2001 - 00:20 UTC
  • So, how about dark McCarthy era in US history? - alexander - December 12, 2001 - 02:46 UTC
    • No thanks, already had one - carefuluniverse - December 12, 2001 - 07:48 UTC
• Ooo-ops, here comes Bush (junior). - alexander - December 11, 2001 - 21:59 UTC
  • response to (no last name) aka 'evaluator of scientific rigor' - carefuluniverse - December 11, 2001 - 23:59 UTC
• Lysenko influenced Stalin... - luis_hamburgh - December 12, 2001 - 23:09 UTC
  • Correction... - luis_hamburgh - December 12, 2001 - 23:11 UTC
    • This is exactly the problem. Bush makes HIS belief a LAW. - alexander - December 13, 2001 - 17:51 UTC
      • Alex, your understanding of the US Constitution... - luis_hamburgh - December 16, 2001 - 21:18 UTC
        • sometimes I, like Alexander, am the chimp in the poster - carefuluniverse - December 17, 2001 - 03:46 UTC
        • Kanzas is back from 18 century? How about Big Bang? - alexander - December 18, 2001 - 00:57 UTC
  • just blame two people? - carefuluniverse - December 13, 2001 - 04:21 UTC
  • Luis, is id due to Lysenko USSR had superior bioweapons? - alexander - December 13, 2001 - 18:42 UTC
    • you call that an insult? - spazcon - December 13, 2001 - 20:03 UTC
    • No, just showing how little "averafe Joe" knows about russia. - alexander - December 14, 2001 - 02:27 UTC
      • Luis is nice enough to forgive if he is not 100% right always - spazcon - December 14, 2001 - 07:05 UTC
        • Mike, if you are mean with me, I can be mean too. - alexander - December 18, 2001 - 03:22 UTC
• Environmental protection - luis_hamburgh - December 12, 2001 - 23:26 UTC