Associations to the word «Lysenkoism»

Wiktionary

LYSENKOISM, noun. (historical) The doctrine that maintained that environmentally acquired characteristics could be inherited.
LYSENKOISM, noun. The use of pseudoscience in furtherance of an ideology.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope