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Show #606: WHEN POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE
Guests: Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Where Our Food Comes From
Subject: Sometimes politics trumps science. It happened during Stalin’s “Land Reform” and Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.” Fortunately, it can’t happen here! Nonetheless, we pause to ask… What happens when politics trumps science?
Topics include a profile of Russia’s legendary seed collector Nikolai Vavilov; what happened when Vavilov was trumped by Stalin’s Agriculture Secretary, Trofim Lysenko; and what you and I might learn from one of history’s great starvations.