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Mikhail Gelfand - Russian biologist, geneticist, specialist in bioinformatics, doctor of biological sciences, professor of the faculty of bioenginery and bioinformatics of Moscow State University, deputy director of the Institute of Problems of Information of RAS Information. It is included in the ten most authoritative scientists of Russia in 2010 according to the Russian reporter magazine. Co-editor of the newspaper Trinity Option.
One of the most active representatives of civil society in science, a consistent fighter with a pseudoscience and scientific bureaucracy. He participated in writing an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation an initiative group of young scientists in defense of domestic science. He was one of the organizers of the rally of scientists against the bureaucratic science, which took place on October 13 in Moscow. Gelfand believes that it is pretense to reform Russian science, but at the same time “not needed, even the calls are“ a storm ”is harmful - a painstaking work to build competitive mechanisms, organizing an honest examination, to combat administrative resources, and destroying bureaucratic slingshots.”
Mikhail Gelfand: “This, of course, is an extremist statement, but I would introduce a qualifying for statements. A person who has not written a single scientific article over the past five years should not speak out on behalf of scientists. He must sit and write a scientific article. ”
Mikhail Gelfand on Polit.ru:
Biologist Mikhail Gelfand considers the slogan "someone instead of Putin" catastrophically wrong
Bioinformatics: molecular biology between a test tube and a computer
Mikhail Gelfand: Experiments that will become classic in 50 years
We need international review of scientific projects
Russian science: diagnosis
Interesting science and useful tips
"About science and its defenders" - the answer of Simon Cordon Mikhail Gelfandu
"Scientia Potentia EST" - an article by bioinformatics Mikhail Gelfand as a response to an article by political scientist Simon Cordon
Science in modern society
"Gelfand scam , or crisis of the Russian PEER -Review system - article by Alexei Kupriyanov
The correct step in the wrong direction is an article by Mikhail Gelfand about the project of the Ministry of Education and Science on the introduction of the System Assessment System
Mikhail Gelfand: Reforming science should take place on the basis of objective criteria
"The Academy of Sciences agreed on its failure"
Bioinformatics: molecular biology between a test tube and a computer -
Lecture by Mikhail Gelfand
Genomes and evolution - Lecture of Mikhail Gelfand