Trofim Denisovich Lysenko - fraudulent of science

(Russian: Трофи́м Дени́сович Лысе́нко, Ukrainian: Трохим Денисович Лисенко, Trofym Denysovych Lysenko)
(September 29, 1898 – November 20, 1976) was a Ukrainian agronomist who was director of Soviet biology
under Joseph Stalin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian
horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adopted them into a powerful political-scientific movement
termed Lysenkoism. His unorthodox experimental research in improved crop yields earned the support of Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin, especially following the famine and loss of productivity resulting from forced collectivization
in several regions of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. In 1940 he became director of the Institute of Genetics within
the USSR's Academy of Sciences, and Lysenko's anti-Mendelian doctrines were further secured in Soviet science and education
by the exercise of political influence and power. Scientific dissent from Lysenko's theories of environmentally acquired
inheritance was formally outlawed in 1948, and for the next several years opponents were purged from held positions, and
many imprisoned. Lysenko's work was officially discredited in the Soviet Union in 1964, leading to a renewed emphasis
there to re-institute Mendelian genetics and orthodox science.Though Lysenko remained at his post in the Institute of Genetics until 1965,[1] his influence on Soviet agricultural practice declined by the 1950s.
The Soviet Union quietly abandoned Lysenko's agricultural practices in favor of modern agricultural practices after the crop yields he promised failed to materialize. Today much of Lysenko's agricultural experimentation
and research is largely viewed as fraudulent.