Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Theodos Stobonsky, a Russian Born, Ucranian Born, and He's Also at Columbia
Theodos stobonsky is one of the more important evolutionary theorists of the twentieth century. He translated lasenko into english in a very calm way, precisely so they could have a scientific discussion bout it and then reject it. One of these guys, leslie, clarence dunn, they're both at columbia. The reason i can track this is they write letters to each other all the time. And you'r they'rein the same department. Why are they doing this? It's because dobonski is travelling around collecting samples in brazil. So done in particular is involved in us. Soviet scientific co operation, an attempt to try and avert a
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