Afterthought /Re: Hoskins on CM/

[elena]

Reminds me of Lysenko in the USSR (and Michourin and Co). It now seems
absurd that they wanted to make hybrids between a pig and a mushroom (or
almost), should I say anecdotal (like Michourin dying after a fall from a
poplar tree where he had climbed to pick some dill). But Lysenko's theory
was used to justify the assumption that conditions are more important than
genetics; power of man over nature, of society's ennobling effect on the
individual. And the promise of supercrops and superpeople