Associations to the word «Lysenkoism»

Wiktionary

LYSENKOISM, noun. (historical) The doctrine that maintained that environmentally acquired characteristics could be inherited.
LYSENKOISM, noun. The use of pseudoscience in furtherance of an ideology.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne