Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Répression de la recherche scientifique en Union soviétique" in French language version.
« The fact that Mendel was a priest has been similarly used to discredit his ideas. »
« Was not Mendel a priest ? If, as the reactionaries maintain, genetic processes are subject to the laws of chance… »
« Mendel, of course, must be discredited, in Communist thought, because he was a product of the West and of the Church. »
« He trenchantly criticises Lysenko's vilification of the work of Mendel and Morgan as "fascist, bourgeois-capitalistic, and inspired by clerics" (that Mendel was a priest is taken as sufficient to discredit his experiments). »
