Lysenko and Russian genetics: Reply to Wang & Liu

Lysenko and Russian genetics: an alternative view.

We read with great interest the recent article ‘Some pioneers of European human genetics’ by Peter Harper.1 This comprehensive review is very informative and highly appreciated. But a somewhat misleading statement needs to be reconsidered. Harper regarded Lysenko as a fraudulent agronomist. We disagree with him on this fundamental point. We are thinking that he was greatly misled by Medvedev’s ...

Reply to Wang and Zhang.

1. An additional updated literature search had been conducted by the authors (D. Menzies and H. Hussain) to identify additional studies that had been published since the last systematic review and might otherwise have been included in the individual patient data (IPD). Of 523 titles identified, 30 were selected for full text review. Thirteen were additional reports on the cohorts that were alre...

Reply to Wang and Liang.

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Drs Wang and Liang for their comments. Mass drug administration (MDA) is not sustainable even in the short term and should not be advocated. Numerous epidemiological studies from around the world, dating back to the early 1980s, have shown that the impact of praziquantel on the prevalence, intensity, and morbidity of disease is short-lived and that in highly endemic areas...

Wang and Brady Reply.

Lysenko rising

of overlapping interests. Put them in a good physical plant with lots of shared space, and let them go to it. When it comes to the size of individual research groups, there’s a value-formoney issue too — we are mostly spending the taxpayers’ coin, after all. I have always had the impression that individual laboratory groups larger than about a dozen full-time workers produce less science per do...