Month: June 2026

The New Lysenkoism

Trofim Lysenko is one of history’s most prolific, if lesser known, mass murderers.  The head of the Institute of Genetics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1940 to the mid-1960s, Lysenko demonstrated that you don’t need a Gestapo or Red Guard to cause death on a massive scale, just bad brains.  Lysenko dismissed Mendelian …

Public Comment — Docket OMB-2026-0034

Re: Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance (2 CFR), Vol. 91 Fed. Reg. No. 103 (May 29, 2026) Sections addressed: [200.205], [200.300], [200.340], [200.432], [200.454], [200.461] (plus additional provisions listed below) What is at stake The stated goals of this proposal — transparency, accountability, and oversight of taxpayer dollars — are ones I share. But its operative …