> A similar case happened when the Soviets used the
> crackpot heredity theorires
> of a doctro whos name escapes me instead of
> Mendelian heredity. It set back
> russian biology fir years until the mid seventies, i
> beleive.
>
> (if anyone knows the name of the russian scientist
> whos theories were used,
> notify me.)
His name was Lysenko (sorry his first name escapes me at the moment).
Mike