Editing Lysenkoism (section)

===Fall===

At the end of 1952, the situation started to change, and newspapers published articles criticizing Lysenkoism. However, the return to regular genetics slowed down in [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s time, when Lysenko showed him the supposed successes of an experimental agricultural complex. It was once again forbidden to criticize Lysenkoism, though it was now possible to express different views, and the geneticists imprisoned under Stalin were released or [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)|rehabilitated posthumously]]. The ban was finally lifted in the mid-1960s.<ref name="aleksandrovvya">{{cite book |last=Alexandrov |first=Vladimir Yakovlevich |title=Трудные годы советской биологии: Записки современника |trans-title=Difficult Years of Soviet Biology: Notes by a Contemporary |publisher=Наука ["Science"] |year=1993 |url=http://vivovoco.astronet.ru/VV/BOOKS/ALEXANDROV/CONTENT.HTM}}</ref><ref name="KolchinskyKutschera2017"/>

Lysenkoism was never dominant in the West, and during the 1960s, it increasingly was seen as [[pseudoscience]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gordin |first=Michael D. |author-link=Michael D. Gordin |date=2012 |title=How Lysenkoism Became Pseudoscience: Dobzhansky to Velikovsky |journal=Journal of the History of Biology |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=443–468 |doi=10.1007/s10739-011-9287-3 |issn=0022-5010 |jstor=41653570|pmid=21698424 |s2cid=7541203 }}</ref> Soviet scientists noticed the great advance in [[molecular biology]], such as the characterization of DNA, and even hold-out Lysenkoists were starting to accept DNA as the material basis for heredity (though they still rejected gene theory).<ref name="Casp" />