Spring exacerbations

Not lucky for us in the spring. This year, in our area, more than ever, the saying is more relevant: “We now had a completely marvelous spring. Only that day I was sick. " It was just winter, and 10 centimeters of snow was planned - and here you have green grass, flowering and pollen clouds, which all sought chemistry at school immediately take for clouds of chlorine.

Apparently, in order to somehow compensate for the lack of spring in nature, in the spring of the calendar, the density of various scandals associated with science, scientists and scientific journalism increases. Apparently, therefore, in the 104th number of a three-hobby, we publish so many open letters and statements-after all, there are so many reasons around!

That St. Petersburg deputy during a press conference will loudly forbid children to teach that they “descended from the goose and pigs”, although in fact evolution even in school textbooks seems somewhat more complicated. And the Coordination Council of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists also have to make a statement (see p. 2).

That company Redox, selling “electric vitamins”, will sue the Nizhny Novgorod journalist, who dared to write that no this is vitamins. And here the club of scientific journalists has to write a informative letter to the judge together and collect signatures under it. By the way, it is interesting what will they say about the biochemistry of “electric vitamins” in the laboratory of vitamins and mineral substances of the Nutrition of the RAMS?