Ideology‑driven agronomy causes famine

When political ideology, not evidence, directs agricultural science and practice, crop‑selection and farming techniques can be systematically wrong and amplify food shortages. Lysenkoism shows how doctrinal framing (e.g., Lamarckian claims promoted as politically congenial) translated into state policy, persecuted dissenting researchers, and worsened famine outcomes. — This idea warns that modern politicization of agri‑science or biotech (from regulatory choices to funding priorities) can produce systemic food‑security failures and human harm if empirical governance is replaced by ideology.