Question

I left my textbook in class, and I'm finishing up homework, but I can't finish these last 3 questions without the textbook. Does anyone have any idea how to answer these? Please help as soon as possible. Thank you.

1. Soviet communism stressed the solidarity of the working class and sought to rid the world of a bourgeois, capitalist class. Why then was it important for Lysenko to challenge the Malthusian/Darwinian ideas of limited resources and intraspecific competition? How would those theories pose a threat to communism?

2. Why is an “anti-intellectual” ideology damaging for science?

3. Lysenko once stated that “to obtain a certain result, you must want to obtain precisely that result; if you want to obtain a certain result, you will obtain it . . . I need only such people as will obtain the results I need.” In what ways is such a statement in opposition to the scientific method?

Answer 1

1) Lysenko challenged the Darwinian ideas because the theories they came up with were against the ideas of soviet communism

2)anti inelectual ideology is damaging for science because it didn't go along with the scientific method.

3)The scientific method is only observing and reacting, not forceful to get your desired results.