This Lysenkoism nonsense is due to the disorder of our philosophical foundations in our culture. The Atomists were rejected and ignored by most people in the ancient Western World because no one could prove that the universe was rational, I am not joking about this.
Epicurianism and other mystery religions were the most popular streams of thought then and irrational. The Atomists held the secrets of Mathematics and the basic building blocks of science but no one would listen because no one could prove rationally why rationality was the best course of action and thought, as it is tautological.
When the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, it did not take very well culturally for generations, but the German tribes did take to it and their world view that emerged in the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages was based on Christianity. By the time Charlemagne rebuilt Western Academic institutions on the basis of Christian world views, among which was the belief that God created the universe, it was popularly accepted that God was rational and that therefore the Universe was built on rational principles that are expressable in human cognitive thought and symbols, i.e. Natural Laws.
This laid the foundations for a Western population that accepted, mostly, the supremacy of 'Natural Philosophy' or what we now call modern Science. Without the underlying Christian World view that God is rational and therefore the Universe is rational as well, Science has no rational, non-tautological basis for its axioms.
This current Voodoo Science is going to continue to plague us until we return to that Natural Design world view or perish. And I am not talking about Evolution denying clap trap, I am talking about the philosophy of Natural Design that is the foundation for Scientific Law.