Academy, you are fooled

Among the conversations about who and why were not chosen to the Academy, some fresh -chosen members of the Russian Academy of Sciences slipped unnoticed. And among them there are wonderful characters.

For example, the CEO of the Material of the Medic, which produces various homeopathic remedies, Oleg Ilyich Epstein, the author of many homeopathic patents and monographs, was the corresponding member of the separation of physiology. Among those sold by Oleg Ilyich, the impase of impotence and the drug based on ultra -small doses of antibodies are listed, about which, in particular, the Bulletin “In Protection of Science” wrote, in particular, the Russian Academy of Sciences [1].

The title of academician in the same department was the author of the scandalous phenomenon of “alternative vision” Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich Medvedev - in his experiments the subjects “saw” through a dense bandage. Here is how Svyvolodovich explains this phenomenon: “For example, on discos, on which most readers of the“ Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ”, unfortunately, there are no longer, ultraviolet spotlights are widely used, allowing delighted participants to see through the dress. The transparency in the infrared range of certain materials led to scandals, as some video cameras provide the opportunity to see through swimsuits on the beaches. Such phenomena are absolutely clear and are not surprising. Apparently, we were faced with a similar phenomenon ”[2].

As was said for a similar occasion: "Academy, you are fooled."

Mikhail Gelfand

1. Sedykh S.E. Homeopathy: History and Modernity // In Defense of Science. 2011. No. S. 49–52.

2. Medvedev S.V. On the question of the so -called alternative vision. Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2005. T. 75. No. S. 558–559.