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NOVEMBER 1958POLITICS BEFORE DATA-- “The school of Soviet genetics led by Trofim D. Lysenko seems to have acquired a new lease on life. It had been expected that various non-Lysenkoist geneticists would represent the U.S.S.R. at the International Congress of Genetics in Montreal, but none arrived. Their absence, and the last-minute sub­mission of several papers, gave the Soviet contribution to the meeting a distinctly Lysenkoist flavor.

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