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- noun Plural form of
Lysenkoist .
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BTW... interesting that you should characterize us as Lysenkoists, since Lysenko was the hero of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy of the USSR.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Quick Note on Sunstein and the Precautionary Principle 2009
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BTW... interesting that you should characterize us as Lysenkoists, since Lysenko was the hero of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy of the USSR.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Quick Note on Sunstein and the Precautionary Principle 2009
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Just as all Lysenkoists were communists, all ID advocates are right wing ideologues, and many right wing ideologues feel compelled to become ID advocates.
Hey Dr. Egnor: At Least Galen Dissected Animals, Not Straw Men - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Just as all Lysenkoists were communists, all ID advocates are right wing ideologues, and many right wing ideologues feel compelled to become ID advocates.
Hey Dr. Egnor: At Least Galen Dissected Animals, Not Straw Men - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Lysenkoists rejected the modern synthesis, like “intelligent design” activists.
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The sentence in the above quotation, starting with the words “The anti-Lysenkoist stand” and ending with the words “synthesis by Lysenkoists” occurs in my text several pages later than the sentence starting with the words “From my experience both” and ending with the words “oppressive Soviet regime.”
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Retired physicist Mark Perakh, who grew up in the former Soviet Union, writes: “The anti-Lysenkoist stand of the ID advocates is … ludicrous given the similarity of their denial of Darwinian biology to the denial of the neo-Darwinian synthesis by the Lysenkoists.”
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There are more similiarities between “intelligent design” activists and Lysenkoists than between modern biologists and Lysenkoists.
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* By “creationists” here I lump in all those who blindly and foolishly oppose Darwinian theory and other demonstrated facts and theories of science – Lysenkoists, homeopaths, scriptural literalists and other IDists, etc.
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As for the debate between the Mendelians and Lysenkoists in the Soviet Union, Caplan apparently doesn't understand that BOTH sides of that debate considered themselves Darwinists.
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