Heh, only half? Nah, that URL http://www.dcu.ie/~comms/hsheehan/lysenko.htm was offered in all seriousness. My reading up on science topics could use some encouragement, btw. (I have to suppress a chuckle when I see quantitative articles in the AJS or APSR in Soc. or Political "Science" belaboring the obvious behind loads of the higher math. Of what use was that stuff to a Mills, Merton or Dahl? Though if I could understand P. Sraffa... http://cs.muohio.edu/Archives/hes/sep-1999/0037.html hmm, Witgenstein & Sraffa...well what the hey cf. "Wittgenstein and Marxism, " edited by Gavin Kitching http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/politics/staffnames/kitching.htm His book, "Rethinking Socialism, " was a good read.) Besides Levins & Lewontin, who I haven't read, offhand I can only think of Stephen Jay Gould as on the left. Any recommendations, lbo'ers on science writers who are lefties? As a kid, I loved a book, "Mathematics for the Millions, " which I gather was written by a Popular Frontist in the 40's. And Verso (?) has a new bio of J.B.S. Haldane. Michael Pugliese