DISCUSSIONS

« At first I thought it was a fake » — scien­tists on reli­gious fun­da­men­ta­lism of the Institute of General Genetics director 

A.M. Kudryavtsev, cor­res­pon­ding mem­ber of the RAS, direc­tor of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the RAS, made a bla­tant­ly fun­da­men­ta­list pre­sen­ta­tion at a theo­lo­gi­cal confe­rence. He clai­med that muta­tions are cau­sed by sins, that human lifes­pans are shor­te­ning because bibli­cal cha­rac­ters lived for hun­dreds of years, and that Russia is for­ced to war because people in neigh­bo­ring coun­tries have mul­ti­plied too much. « At first I thought it was a fake,» write without col­lu­sion in res­ponse to the obs­cu­ran­tism Acad. Alexei Khokhlov and bio­in­for­ma­ti­cian Alexander Panchin. There is also a res­ponse from the head of the RAS Commission against Pseudoscience, Acad. Eugene Alexandrov.

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Victor Vakhshtayn conti­nues the dia­logue with Mikhail Sokolov 

Responding to Mikhail Sokolov’s points, Viktor Vakhshtayn conti­nues his dis­cus­sion of the obs­tacles that arise in trans­fer­ring the results of socio­lo­gi­cal research obtai­ned in one socie­ty to another.

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Sociologist Mikhail Sokolov responds to an inter­view with Victor Vakhshtayn 

Mikhail Sokolov has pos­ted detai­led remarks fol­lo­wing an inter­view with Victor Vakhshtayn publi­shed by T-inva­­riant. Spoiler alert : « Russian social scien­tists … do not need to aban­don Russian mate­rial in the past by era­sing it along with the part of their lives dedi­ca­ted to col­lec­ting it. If you unders­tand how the men­tal maps of the social sciences are arran­ged, … you can, hope­ful­ly, avoid such sacrifices. »

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Countries impor­ting Russian fake dissertations 

Prof. Andrei Rostovtsev lis­ted the coun­tries whose citi­zens, accor­ding to Dissernet, acti­ve­ly use the oppor­tu­ni­ty to receive aca­de­mic degrees in Russia for fal­si­fied dis­ser­ta­tions. China is in first place, fol­lo­wed by most Third World coun­tries, and there are even some European coun­tries on the list. And for ins­tance, Tajikistan suc­cess­ful­ly sells Russian-lan­­guage for­ge­ries to Iranians. 

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Ukrainian scien­tists call for boy­cott of Russian science 

The Nature web-site reports about an open let­ter of Ukrainian scien­tists with an appeal to the world scien­ti­fic com­mu­ni­ty to boy­cott Russian science. The Russian scien­ti­fic dia­spo­ra is dis­cus­sing the topic in the RASA group.

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