The number of scientists and false scientists in the world is almost equal

Science has always attracted fraudsters and scammers. In past centuries, hundreds of patent applications with perpetual motors have been submitted to patent offices until such a “invention” has been banned in principle. Now pseudoscientific journals are distributed that accept anything for publication, any articles, even from a text generator . The quality of the text generators is so high that such articles are accepted even by serious scientific publishers - in this way their mathematics trolls and programmers.

In addition to pseudoscientific journals, there are also pseudoscientific organizations like the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Russian Academy of Natural Sciences), very similar to normal scientific institutions.

Pseudoscience is so advanced that it causes concern among real scientists. First, they warn that there is too much research published and it is impossible to follow them. Secondly, the quality of scientific work is falling: for example, it recently turned out that the results of only 50% of sociological and psychological research can be replicated , and in dozens of articles in scientific journals expert evaluation is fabricated .

The Russian Academy of Sciences shares the alarm of the scientific community. This was said at a press conference by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov. According to him, the number of scientists and false scientists in the world is almost equal, and amounts to about 6 million people, the fight against pseudoscience is one of the most important tasks of the RAS.
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“One of the tasks that we are facing is the popularization of scientific knowledge, the fight against pseudoscience ... This function is the most important. It is all over the world. Today the number of scientists and the number of false scientists of approximately the same order are 6 million people of those and these, ”said Forts.

The problem is particularly acute in the field of medicine, where non-scientific methods of treatment, inactive medicines and simply misinformation in society, for example, about the dangers of GMOs, are spread. “These are not harmless things, they stupid the nation and make us moron,” Forts stressed.