Nikolay Veniaminovich Kaverin, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Head. Laboratory of Virus Physiology, Research Institute of Virology named after. D.I. Ivanovsky expressed his attitude to the discussion about homeopathy and arbidol in a commentary on TrV-Science. — There are currently discussions in the media about the dangers and benefits of homeopathy. Could you express your opinion on this issue?

Recently I came across a book called “Established Connections. A Practical Guide to Networking” [1], written by American marketer Tom Singer in collaboration with Leslie Morris. Being interested in issues of interpersonal communication and sometimes not disdaining to look through “pop” literature, I could not pass by. In fact, the book turned out to be a typical example of American literature, written in the “for dummies” style, stuffed with banal advice and well-known clichés.

Homeopathic medicines are quite common in the world and are often enthusiastically supported by both individual doctors and pharmacists and many patients. It is characteristic that this happens, despite the constant serious criticism of homeopathy from a scientific point of view. Apparently, this is because even today medicine is largely not only by science, but also by art.

From left to right: M. Gaidar, V. Uspensky, D. Zimin, S. Ivanov, G. Kozlov, E. Bunimovich, A. Semikhatov, Yu. Ryzhov, L. Ponomarev, Yu. Vyazemsky On November 18, the holders of the Enlightener Prize, established by the Dmitry Zimin Foundation, “Dynasty” were named. Like last year, there are two laureates: in the nominations “Natural and Accurate Sciences” and in the nomination “Humanitarian Sciences”.

This should have been my column about self-medication for depression, completely unscientific and frivolous. But when it turned out that this issue was already about pseudoscience, I was somehow embarrassed.

The founding conference of the modernization movement “Forward Russia!”, created by the United Russia party, took place in Moscow. Answering the question of how the new structure can help the comprehensive modernization of Russia, molgvardia.ru experts agreed that it is the participants in the movement who will form the vanguard of society, which will develop the country.

Since the material about homeopathy (the TRV-HOWN No. 19 (63)) aroused interest, we decided to continue the discussion and give the floor to doctors who, to one degree or another, are favorably belonging to homeopathy, but not homeopaths. The first to answer several questions, the doctor of medical sciences , Yevgeny Yakovlevich Pauls,, a well -known supporter of evidence -based medicine. - Is there, in your opinion, a clear border between homeopathic and allopathic medicines?

This should have been my column about self-medication for depression, completely unscientific and frivolous. But when it turned out that this issue was already about pseudoscience, I was somehow embarrassed. It’s one thing when I’m the only troll in the entire newspaper, and another thing when homeopaths come to it. We popularizers have a complex attitude towards pseudoscience. On the one hand, we hate and despise her. On the other hand, we owe our existence to it.

The editors asked the deputy director of the IRE RAS, corresponding member, to comment on the article by I. L. Bronevoy. RAS S. A. Nikitova Dear Editor-in-Chief! Dear Colleagues! I received an invitation from the respected M. S. Gelfand on the pages of TrV-Nauka to answer the questions posed in the previous and present articles by Mr. I. L. Bronevoy. My first desire was not to get involved in a meaningless skirmish and, most importantly, not to waste time.

Dear editors! There are such naive people among us scientists who imagine that history can be some kind of objective discipline that impartially studies, describes and analyzes a series of past events. For such botanists, it is extremely important to find out who Rurik was - a Scandinavian leader or a Slav, to establish whether Ramses II defeated the Hittites at Kadesh or not, or to find out some other thing of the same degree of relevance.

Fig. I. Kiiko What work on contracts with government agencies can organizations with the names of LLC “Agency for Legal Support“ Business and Law ”” and LLC “Publishing House“ Kladez ””? Judging by the name, the first of them, the law firm probably provides legal and consulting services. The second, probably, issues various printed materials and books on orders of state bodies. In any case, it is natural to assume something like this. Reality is much more interesting.

But the laureate - twice as much! On November 10, the annual ceremony of presenting the L'Oreal-UNESCO awards “for women in science” took place in Moscow. The winners of the competition were 10 young Russian women scientists who will receive a bonus of 350 thousand rubles. Here are their names: Anastasia Bochenkova (Moscow), Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University; Natalia Kryzhanovskaya (St. Petersburg), N.S.

Articles in HTML: 08/30/2011 PDF: TrV No. 17 (86N) for 2011: “Evolutionary leap” Announcement of the issue Evolutionary Leap (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko The author of the editorial recalls large projects financed by the state and at the same time successfully disrupted. Questionable projects of the nearest future are also listed...

Rice. author Yesterday (night) I woke up at half the night. I got up. I wandered around the apartment. I listened to the quiet and measured sleepy breath of my son. Quietly went to the balcony. A dark purple, anxious sky was rapidly rushing somewhere past the windows of my house. At the bottom of my chest lay a prickly multifaceted pain crystal. I sniffed, sighed, trodden with bare feet on the cool wood of the floor boards on the balcony. I went to the computer. Included. Called the Internet.

The AK is known that since stagnation, mortality in Russia has been growing like yeast. It would seem that medicine is progressing, life has become better, life has become more fun ... But it was not there! Why would it be? - You ask. Rice. 1. Expected life expectancy at birth, men and women, the European Union (Blue) and Russia (Pink), 1970–2006. Source: WHO, HFA There are several factors affecting the mortality of Russians (see Fig. 1). Here is the general aging of the population, i.e.