The Troublemakers is a science fiction novella by George O. Smith first published in 1960.

What did Genetics and Hansen's Folly have in common?

Why, everything ...

Genetics was statistical and Hansen's Folly impossible!

The Troublemakers was first published in Galaxy Magazine April 1960.

George Oliver Smith (1911-1981) (also known by the pseudonym Wesley Long) was an American science fiction author. He is not to be confused with George H. Smith, another American science fiction author. 

Smith wrote mainly about outer space, with such works as Operation Interstellar (1950), Lost in Space (1959), and Troubled Star (1957). Smith continued regularly publishing science fiction novels and stories until 1960. He was given the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1980.