While I don't see the connection either I would opine that if Lysenko had been a pony he might not have been so totally certifiably bonkers (only just mostly bonkers instead).



If you are unfamiliar with Lysenkoism he's an interesting study in how pseudoscience comes about. I like to characterize Lysenkoism as the idea that nature can be somehow made happily socialistic, that crops can be effectually regimented according to socialistic ideology as a matter of adjusted biology and so forth.



C.S.Lewis famously said that one can get, within reason, the science they want (and that is true, since scientist are not philosophical voids before they start their educations); BUT, Lysenko might counter 'what has reason got to do with it, we've got the power of the state behind us!' being something of the idea.