Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1948 — Page 36
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: ‘bing strangied by the Party Line, A {s the opinion of Dr. Herman J. Muller, the
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Dr. Muller is a world figure in genetics, the science of heredity.
Suddenly last month, he resigned had held for years in the Soviet Academy of Bcience, The. 1... U, scientist's move irred the academic world. It dramatized a widening breach in gelentific thought between the Western World and Soviet Rusaa :
In his small, basement office
University, Dr.
Times why he quit the academy.
Law vs. Nature The Russian State, Trofim Dennisovitch Lysenko, who dominates the academy, had laid down a new law of genetics which no selentist in the WestLom World had found in nature,
Lysenko promulgated the law}
that acquired characteristics
" could be inherited. This appar-|§
- ently obscure pronouncement had enormous political possibilities. It fitted neatly into Communist Party propaganda: Conditions changed by revolution might . breed a mightier race of men. Accepted by the Communist Party, it became dogma. And those who took the scientist's option of disagreeing were purged, said Dr. Muller, pe Theories ‘Drivel’ YT quit,” he sald, “because of Lysenke's views on’ genetics and ther. importan itters of
icientist, What he holds tific truths ‘cannot be accepted
80-|years he was senior geneticist at
geneticists who refused to subscribe to Lysenko's theory. . As anti-Western feeling was being whipped up in the Soviet press, Moscow Literary
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REJECTS SOVIET THEORIES ~Dr, Herman J. Muller, 1946 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine,
membership in the U. S,'S. R. Academy of Sciences, He terms "s ientist'
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Gazette Invited the le geneticists to explain their views freely on the question of heredity. Three geneticists — Dubinin, Schmalhausen and Zhebrak— stated the case for the geneticists, By implication, sald Dr. Muller, they criticized the Academy clique of Lysenko. ' Schmalhausen was fired from the Academy.
Dubinin’s laboratories were
t|confiscated.
Zhebrak was forced to recant. Fear
Muller.
jmunist Party.
tion. That is why I resigned. The mild, self-effacing profes-
The bonds which link scientists lover the world had broken. Driven From Germany Best known for his paper on “Translation of : Genes”
Columbia University.
the Institute of Genetics thers.
from East to West. “You cannot,” he said finally, “alter the course of nature and \subject it to the politics of man.”
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“Ever present is their fear of (being led into a trap by the Com-
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