Lysenko back in favour

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Lysenko, who was Stalin's prize piece during the worst period of repression of the intelligentsia and who actively participated in the purge of 'Mendel—lorganists', ise., biologists who believe the gene theory of inheritance, is back in favour. He is reported to have given a report to a scientific conference in December entitled, " Theoretical Foundations of Controlled changes in the Heredity of Crops", Moreover Pravda devoted two pages of its January 29th. edition to this report. Lysenko, who 1s regarded by most Western biologists as a charlaten (J.B.S. Haldane almost cortéinly resigned from the British C.P. because of the latter's attempt to get him to support Lysenko) was shelved for a whole period after the death of Stalin,