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Ignorant on April 15, 2008 - 11:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I believe the abiotic theory was developed in the USSR during the Cold War. For some reason, the guy who developed it was politically connected, so it did get quite a lot of exposure - with "evidence" -within the scientific community there. May explain the reason for the large percentage difference.

I haven't seen much data on it.

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FMagyar on April 15, 2008 - 8:07pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Considering that this is the same culture that produced Lysenkoism, it may not be all that surprising

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dissident on April 15, 2008 - 9:47pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

For some reason you seem to think that Lysenko's ideas are widely accepted in Russia today.

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