freecounterpoint: Nobel to Enron adviser

Monday, October 13, 2008

Nobel to Enron adviser

8 comments:

Pepe le Pew said...: Now that is just ridiculous.; 10/13/2008 9:51 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Biology will be next. A retroactive Nobel handed to Lysenko.; 10/13/2008 12:09 PM
Mr roT said...: Lysenko was a great man. Could you provide a resoconto of his works, AA, since you are a specialist in these matters?; 10/13/2008 2:11 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Tromif Lysenko WAS a Great Man. Stalin even allowed a few statues of him. Greatness recognized Greatness right there. It is a crime against Science, no doubt the fault of Neocons, that Lysenko did not win a Nobel in his lifetime. But, now that the Nightmare of Kapitalism is over, this matter can be addressed.
If you want a concise resoconto of his works, this suffices:
Lysenko was a disciple of the Frenchman, Lamarck: The "germoplasm" is a direct product of the environment. Characteristics acquired from the environment are inheritable, and form the totality of biological inheritance.
[Wheat grown in a cold box will have germoplasm changed so that it's descendant strain is more inured to cold. Just, as with Lamarck, the effort of equine like animals to stretch necks to reach leaves caused offspring with longer necks--in a nice continuous progression to Giraffe.]

His great rival, Vavilov, unfortunately was a disciple of the new Mendelian-Morgan genetics, and neither Mendel nor Morgan was French. This led him to the grave error of rejecting the Lamarckian inheritance of environmentally acquired characteristics.

To boot, Vavilov was probably a sympathizer of stinking Neocons, and deserves all the Opprobrium PP can muster. He certainly deserved the bullet in the back of the neck he got in the early 40s. His son, a top physicist, got offed shortly after WWII. So an environmentally acquired characteristic was passed from father to son, showing yet again the genius of Lysenko.

Tromif's star will long shine, a credit to an ideology that does not fail.; 10/13/2008 3:10 PM
Tecumseh said...: A small quibble: it's Trofim. Here are some of his thoughts -- rendered in perfect Pepean dialectics.; 10/13/2008 5:03 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Thanks, AI, shoulda looked it up. Makes his name even sound better in Portuguese.; 10/13/2008 5:24 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Thanks for the link, AI:

This quote is a succinct gem:
"The most glaring manifestation of such debasement of Darwinism is to be found in the teachings of Weismann, Mendel, and Morgan, the founders of modern reactionary genetics."

Poor Vavilov never had a chance.; 10/13/2008 5:27 PM
Mr roT said...: Thank you boys. That Vavilov should have stayed out of the cold box.; 10/13/2008 7:49 PM

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