COMMISSION ON PSEUDOSCIENCE
of Russian Academy of Sciences

Commission on Pseudoscience at the Russian Academy of Sciences Expert Council Memorandum №3 Astrology as Pseudoscience

Commission on Pseudoscience and Research Fraud Memorandum #2 HOMEOPATHY AS PSEUDOSCIENCE

As a matter of fact, science is always accompanied by its shadow, pseudoscience. The latter is a collective name for all kinds of concepts and activities that, for various purposes, disguise as science. However, there are hardly any clear formal criteria enabling one to demarcate between science and pseudoscience.

The ongoing brain drain and lack of financing is not the only reason why Russian science has suffered in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union. The increase in pseudoscience has been so strong that the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) has formed a body to deal with the influx, the Commission on … [ . . . ]

April 4, 2014 Commission on Pseudoscience has launched a pilot version of the web-site. The web-site contains following sections: Reports of the Commission — the official information of the Commission and its members’ opinions; Pseudoscience monitor — current events of interest; The Archive of the bulletin “In Defense of Science” («В защиту науки»), published by … [ . . . ]

Academic ‘scallywags’ are gaining doctorates thanks to the circulation of dodgy theses within some universities, says the founder of plagiarism pressure group

May 26 official newspaper of the Russian government („Rossijskaya Gazeta“) had published a large article about Chechen self-taught inventor of a perpetuum mobile. Publication does not contain any scientific comment and in sad earnest describes the invention as „the solution of energy independence problem“. The work is sponsored by the state-owned enterprise „Strojinvestitsii“. [ . . . ]