>But work in Mendelian genetics was essentially illegal at the time in the Soviet Union, because of a pseudo-scientific charlatan by the name of Trofim Lysenko (Joravsky 1979; Soyfer 1994).
>In the mid-1920s, the Communist Party leadership, in an attempt to glorify the average citizen, began to promote uneducated men from the proletariat into the scientific community.
You cannot fix science through ideology, especially when that ideology is actually just loyalty, and is mostly being used as an excuse to get rid of people who keep telling you that you are wrong.
