Can Big Pharma Be Held Accountable? Paul Craig Roberts In 1935 Trofim Lysenko, a fraudulent  agronomist took control of Soviet genetics and agronomy and destroyed the science with political and ideological explanations. With biology under Lysenko’s dominance, the principles of Mendel’s classical genetics were banned, and real scientists suffered political repression.   The Lysenko affair exemplifies my point that without…