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To believe in the face of overwhelming science.
To doubt in the face of overwhelming faith.
Nazi eugenics: Selective human breeding -- desirable purity
Lysenko: inheritance of acquired characteristics.
"His habit was to report only successes. His results were based on extremely small samples, inaccurate records, and the almost total absence of control groups. An early mistake in calculation, which caused comment among other specialists, made him extremely negative toward the use of mathematics in science. "