The Russian Academy of Sciences decided to reorganize the commissions to combat the so-called falsification of science and research. Their duties will be delegated to the expert council. vedomosti.
According to Vedomosti, on March 6, information began to appear in the VKontakte communities about the reorganization of the commissions to combat pseudoscience and falsification of research. In one of the messages about the dissolution of commissions posted in the community to discuss homeopathy, the academy’s decision was met with the words “solid forces in RAS have won”.
The head of the expert council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Stepan Kalmykov, emphasized that the commissions were “not liquidated, but restructured”. He attributed this decision to the Academy’s desire to reduce the number of various commissions and councils within the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to Vedomosti, the decision to restructure was taken in December 2022. Representatives of the unofficial community of scientists “July 1 Club” believe that the undisputed adoption of such a decision goes against the traditions of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“It is also necessary to remember that the commissions made an extremely large contribution to the fight against pseudoscience, in particular, by stopping the projects of thugs, which saved hundreds of millions of rubles from the country’s budget,” the members of July 1 said. The club recorded.
Vasily Vlasov, a professor at the Department of Health Management and Economics at the Higher School of Economics and a member of the commission to combat pseudoscience, said in a comment to Vedomosti that he was considering the abolition of the transfer, not its abolition. continuation of the activities of the commissions.