Reading "Extended Heredity" and it raises some very interesting questions about how there are inherited factors other than DNA in genes that directly affect inheritance and evolution. It also discusses thought control in science. Anyway, the following quotes seem appropriate to things happening here, too.

"While ideology and politics may seem irrelevant to the outcome of scientific debate, the ideological positions staked out by proponents of competing visions of heredity were regarded at the time as thoroughly grounded in scientific theory and evidence"

"The Soviet political system promoted ruthless careerists who knew how to speak the language of ideological orthodoxy, enabling a scientific illiterate .......to rise to prominence and power.."