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RAS Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and the Falsification of Scientific Research and the Ministry of Education and Science plan to spend about 30 million rubles to refute pseudoscientific knowledge, reports on Tuesday, 7 October, Izvestia. Expose false scientific information going through social networks and media.
Therapeutic session of Anatoly Kashpirovsky during the collapse USSR �
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In addition, as noted in the ministry, students will testing for basic natural science knowledge is proposed, to identify the most common pseudoscientific misconceptions.
Media selected by the academy and ministry will not only be describe various types of pseudoscience, but also to promote achievements basic research. For these purposes, it is planned organize the School of Young Scientific Journalist with the involvement of leading specialists in this field.
Chairman of the Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences to Combat Pseudoscience and Falsification Evgeny Alexandrov noted that most of all people trust unverified facts in the field of medicine.
“The problem is really big, and about such things you need inform people. At the moment, the center of gravity has moved – if earlier pseudoscience tried to seize the money that went to defense industry, tossing up idiotic creation projects gravitational guns and other nonsense, now the problem has turned into medical industry, “he said.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and high technology Dmitry Novikov believes that the time has come bring the issue of pseudoscience to legislative discussion. By his opinion, it is necessary to educate the population from the school bench for so that people do not succumb to the tricks of charlatans.
On February 5, 2014, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov stated that in the modern world about the same number of people are engaged in pseudoscience how much and science. According to him, about a million work in Russia healers whose turnover is several billion rubles in year.
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