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 (RAN) has formed a body to deal with the influx, the Commission on Pseudoscience and Research Fraud.
The Moscow Times spoke with the chairman of the commission, Evgeny Alexandrov, who is also the head of a laboratory at the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, one of Russia's largest institutions for research in physics and technology.
Does Russian science really need to be protected?
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INC News, Schiedam, 03/09/2015 - via Moscow Times
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