Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences filed a lawsuit against Victor Petrik

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow adopted for consideration the civil lawsuit of the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Eduard Kruglyakov and Evgeny Alexandrov to the inventor Viktor Petrik. According to Kommersant, academicians claim that Petrik in his speeches in the media constantly insults them. Moral damage is estimated at 2.5 million rubles. Preliminary hearings are scheduled for May 5.

As follows from the claim of scientists, Petrik organized a massive information attack against them. Peterik calls the world-famous physicist scientists in the whole world, created by the “preliminary conspiracy” for the “criminal actions” on the “destruction of our science”. The “criminal group” of academicians, according to Petrik, allegedly set the task of "discrediting the country's leadership through sublogists and betrayal." A world -famous physicist, chairman of the commission for combating pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research under the Russian Academy of Sciences Eduard Kruglyakov, the inventor also accused the “progressive dementia (dementia. - Ed.)”, And developed against the background of “domestic drunkenness”. Petrik’s statements were regularly published in the media.

“The amount of monetary compensation in this case is unprincipled for us,” lawyer Heinrich Padva, who represented the interests of academics, explained to the publication. “The main thing is to stop the flow of slander and shielding large scientists who have huge merits to the country. The defendant, I believe, was simply emerging - at first he shamelessly appropriates other people's achievements, and then instead of defending his inventions in the normal The scientific polem is behaved like a bazaar merchant. According to Kommersant, in case of victory, all the academicians won the money to be transferred to some charitable or supporting Russian science of the organization.

The conflict of scientists with Viktor Petrik began in 2006, after the inventor patented the original filter for the purification of drinking water, in which a “carbon mixture of high reactionary ability” was used. The co-author of the invention was the chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, and soon the first industrial models of the “miracle filter”, released under the Golden Formula trademark, appeared. On the labels of the product appeared the Logo of United Russia, the abbreviation "Emergencies" and the surname "Shoigu". Nanotechnological products in the framework of the State Program "Clean Water" were planned to provide all Russian schools, kindergartens and many other state institutions.

Before launching in mass production, the filter was given for examination in the Russian Academy of Sciences. The commission included academics of Kruglyakov and Aleksandrov. “Having evaluated the properties of the filter, we came to the conclusion that it can be used to clean the oil spilled through the water area, but the Academician of the Kruglyaks explained to Kommersant.“ The fact is that particles of activated coal, which is used in all water filters, necessarily fall into the human body, so their size is of their size. The stomach is completely harmless, and the effect on the body of the nanoparticles of the coal, which Mr. Petrik is talking about, has not yet been studied. "

According to the scientist, Petrik refused to provide his filter for additional tests at the Institute of Human Ecology, saying that there are no nanoparticles in the product, and this, according to the academician, already gives reason to accuse the inventor of charlatanism. “If there are no nanoparticles, then there is no invention,” the Academician of Kruglyakov believes. “Ordinary activated carbon has been used for filtration for many years.”

In December 2010, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region ordered a number of media to pay Petrik 610 thousand rubles. "The court partially satisfied our lawsuit against Rosbalt, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Novaya Gazeta. They should refute their inaccurate information about the properties of our filters on their pages," said Petrik's representative.