Editing Trofim Lysenko (section)

==Consequences of Lysenko's views==
Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his "law of the life of species", plants from the same "class" never compete with one another.<ref name="atlantic">{{cite news | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241001121207/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/ |title=The Soviet Era's Deadliest Scientist Is Regaining Popularity in Russia | magazine=[[The Atlantic]] | date=19 December 2017 | archive-date=1 October 2024}}</ref> Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages.<ref name="atlantic"/> The [[People's Republic of China]] under [[Mao Zedong]] adopted his methods starting in 1958, with calamitous results, contributing to the [[Great Chinese Famine]] of 1959 to 1962, in which some 15–55 million people died.{{refn|group="note"|According to various sources.<ref name="smil">{{Cite journal|last=Smil|first=Vaclav|date=18 December 1999|title=China's great famine: 40 years later|journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal|volume=319|issue=7225|pages=1619–1621|doi=10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1619|issn=0959-8138|pmc=1127087|pmid=10600969}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gráda|first=Cormac Ó|year=2007|title=Making Famine History|journal=Journal of Economic Literature|volume=45|issue=1|pages=5–38|doi=10.1257/jel.45.1.5|jstor=27646746|issn=0022-0515|hdl=10197/492|s2cid=54763671 |hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":1b">{{Cite journal|last1=Meng|first1=Xin|last2=Qian|first2=Nancy|last3=Yared|first3=Pierre|year=2015|title=The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961|url=https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pyared/papers/famines.pdf|journal=Review of Economic Studies|volume=82|issue=4|pages=1568–1611|doi=10.1093/restud/rdv016|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305165942/https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pyared/papers/famines.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hasell|first1=Joe|last2=Roser|first2=Max|date=10 October 2013|title=Famines|url=https://ourworldindata.org/famines|journal=Our World in Data|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418002509/https://ourworldindata.org/famines|archive-date=18 April 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~crossley/HIST5.03/FILES/OHMC_DIkotter.pdf|title=Mao's Great Famine: Ways of Living, Ways of Dying|last=Dikötter|first=Frank|publisher=Dartmouth University|access-date=23 November 2021|archive-date=16 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716231543/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~crossley/HIST5.03/FILES/OHMC_DIkotter.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Branigan|first=Tania|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone|title=China's Great Famine: the true story|date=1 January 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 April 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110054200/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone|archive-date=10 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/ajeats/2016/01/china-great-famine-mission-expose-truth-160106100552321.html|title=China's Great Famine: A mission to expose the truth|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421154859/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/ajeats/2016/01/china-great-famine-mission-expose-truth-160106100552321.html|archive-date=21 April 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/633457/charted-chinas-great-famine-according-to-yang-jisheng-a-journalist-who-lived-through-it/|title=Charted: China's Great Famine, according to Yang Jisheng, a journalist who lived through it|last=Huang|first=Zheping|website=Quartz|date=10 March 2016 |language=en|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525094610/https://qz.com/633457/charted-chinas-great-famine-according-to-yang-jisheng-a-journalist-who-lived-through-it/|archive-date=25 May 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>}}<ref name="atlantic" />