Paul Krugman: Trump’s Stalinist approach to science

Lately I’ve found myself thinking about Trofim Lysenko.Who? Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist who decided that modern genetics was all wrong, indeed contrary to Marxist-Leninist principles. He even denied that genes existed, while insisting that long-discredited views about evolution were actually right. Real scientists marveled at his ignorance.But Josef Stalin liked him, so Lysenko’s views became official doctrine, and scientists who refused to endorse them were sent to labor camps o