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Ukrainian agronomist T D Lysenko (1898-1976) was the leader of an influential Soviet agrobiological school that rejected standard genetics and instead promoted a brand of pseudoscience that held sway among Soviet biologists for over twenty-five years. Based on archival materials not previously accessible, ""The Lysenko Effect"" is both a valuable contribution to the history of science and an instructive case study in the ways in which ideals of social progress can skew the results of objective science in any society.

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Nils Roll-Hansen (Oslo, Norway) is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Oslo, the author of The Freedom and Necessity of Science: Pasteur's Theories in Growth and Decline and the editor (with Gunnar Broberg) of Eugenics and the Welfare State.

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