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The greenwashed heirs to Lysenko

The greenwashed heirs to Lysenko

The debt to Stalinism of climate change dogma is unmistakeable

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 29, 2021
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Trofim Lysenko speaking before Stalin at the Kremlin, 1935

My attention was caught on Monday by the final sentence in a reader’s letter to The Times. Chris Hamnett wrote: 

It is depressing that, like Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, Sir Keir Starmer has chosen ideology over scientific and physical reality. Asked by Andrew Marr to comment on Rosie Duffiel…

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