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The paper is authored by grad students.

Did they properly cite the previous work of Trofim Lysenko? He was the first to indict Western geneticists as "fly lovers and people haters" who promote imperialism and bourgeois false science. Failing to cite his work in this context is flagrant academic dishonesty.

You are free to check.

After he was discovered in the Soviet Union and exiled he spent the remainder of his career being funded by the American ruling class to continue his research. Kind of invalidates your argument a little bit huh

Exiled to where?

Depends on which multiverse timeline.

In mine, he died "in obscurity" in Russia in 1976.

Unless of course the sources that say so are disinformation from the ruling class.

It got published in a peer-reviewed journal. Its bloody impact factor is 3.926.

> Its bloody impact factor is 3.926.

I have no sense of scale for that. Is that high? Low? If it's high, does it necessarily mean it's influential too (e.g. it can be cited and then rebuked in other papers)?

It’s average citations per article. It’s low. The top 100 journals bottom out around an impact factor of 25 and it is a long tail to get to 4.

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