by Paul Craig Roberts, 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 truth there can be no science and no scholarship.