re: #131 Expand Your Ground

I want to see him on more school curricula! Teach the controversy!

It is sometimes claimed that the space race forced the return of the evolution in American schools. Maybe - but it surely wasn’t the reason for the Soviet successes in space, given how Lysenko was triumphant through most of Khrushchev’s reign too. By this logic it was Lysenko’s variant of evolutionary mechanisms that should have been taught…