The Authority of Science Has Been Undermined By Identity politics Paul Craig Roberts The quack Soviet “scientist” Trofim Lysenko used politics to destroy Soviet genetics. Lysenko represented the unscientific view that environment, not genetics, was the explanation. In 1948 the Soviet government banned scientific dissent from Lysenko’s theory of environmentally acquired inheritance. Thousands of Soviet … Continue reading Identity Politics Has Stopped Scientific Research Into the Genetic Basis of IQ Differences