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LYSENKOISM — [Noun] The pseudoscientific doctrine, associated with Trofim Lysenko, asserting that acquired characteristics can be inherited, often used to justify ideological interference in science. From the surname Lysenko (Trofim Lysenko) + the suffix -ism, denoting a distinctive practice or ideology. Unlike "Lamarckism" (a historical biological theory) or "dogmatism" (rigid adherence to doctrine generally), Lysenkoism is the enforced marriage of ideology and pseudoscience, where belief bends reality to its will. It is the barren wheat fields of Stalin’s collectivized farms, the hushed dissent of biologists sent to gulags, and the grotesque spectacle of a government decreeing that winter wheat could become spring wheat through sheer revolutionary fervor—a cautionary monument to what happens when truth is made subordinate to power.