LYSENKO CONTROVERSY
Sir,-I have noticed your article by Dr. O. H. Frankel on the Lysenko controversy. I would welcome many more on the same subject," but unfortunately I think Dr. Frankel is only trying to help to stir up confusion and an antiSoviet feeling. He makes out Lysenko to be an illiterate man who has gained power by disposing of other men to get their positions. Dr. Frankel gives us four explanations to try to account for the death of Professor Vavilov and not one of them is satisfactory, Professor J. B. S. Haldane has already answered Dr. Frankel and the News Chronicle in Britain on the Lysenko issue. The workers who know Haldane, and the thousands of students who have listened to Haldane, know that he is not a "yes" man. Because of his political views Haldane has had to spend much of his own money that he should have received from the Government. Haldane still does not agree 100 per cent. with Lysenko, but he is -not afraid that Lysenko will come to Britain to bump him off. Dr, Frankel admits that up until 1935 the Soviet Union led the world in research stations for plant and agriculture. Dr. Frankel tries to make us believe that Lysenko is so stupid that he would take a non-winter hardy wheat to the far north where it is below zero and that it would grow. Anyone knows that it must be crossed with. another hardy wheat to give it at least a chance of growing.
J.
COCKBURN
(Taylorville).
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19490624.2.14.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 522, 24 June 1949, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
257LYSENKO CONTROVERSY New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 522, 24 June 1949, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in