The pseudo-science of autarkic Russia

Bizarre theories proliferate in the country at war, contrary to the scientific discoveries 'imposed' by the West. Russians who can live 900 years, miraculous homeopathy, satellites that perform interstellar travel. With the new patriotic science, Moscow wants to conquer not only this world, but the entire universe.

Moscow (AsiaNews) - Vladimir Putin's pronouncements on the "new Russian civilisation", which must make itself autonomous in every field from the "domination of globalist powers", has excited the spirits of Russian scientists, who are always ready to go beyond the boundaries of imagination to assert themselves above the world.

In March, at the session of the international theological-scientific conference in Moscow, the biologist Aleksandr Kudrjavtsev, director of the Institute of Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, explained that 'all genetic diseases originate from original sin': in fact, the first men lived to be 900 years old, but after the Universal Flood, the course of life became increasingly shorter.

That is why, according to Kudrjavtsev, 'the world does not allow Russia to live quietly and develop according to its own scenario... our resources are too attractive to the surrounding world, be it Europe or China, and we have to defend ourselves with our military capabilities... to restore the original order of paradise in Russia'.

Outlandish, anti-scientific theories are not exclusive to Russia's leading geneticist, however. Oleg Epštein is a pharmacologist and scholar of the first rank, himself a member of the Academy of Sciences and director of a major laboratory of patho-physiology. He is the leading preacher of homeopathic medicine in Russia, the doctrine of cures prescribed in 'extra-minimal doses', which has a large number of followers in the country.

The National Commission for Combating False Science in 2017 listed Epštein as one of the main accused of 'pseudo-scientific homeopathy', but Epštein sued the Commission in court, obtaining partial success.

After all, in 2018 alone, his company 'Materia Medika Holding' had lost billions of roubles due to the lack of success of its 'Anaferon' and 'Ergoferon' preparations, but now Putin's push for 'pharmaceutical sovereignty' could revive the business of Russian homeopathy.

Another academic, the head of the chair of Differential Geometry Anatolij Fomenko, who has recently decided to devote himself to the study of history, also gets a lot of attention at these junctures.

According to his theories, in the Middle Ages there was a gigantic empire with its political centre in the eastern part of Europe, which dominated the whole of Eurasia, and according to some versions even America.

Hence the need to write a 'New Chronology', on which more than 100 books with a circulation of almost a million have been published, rewriting the entire history of Europe from the 10th century onwards, in order to prove the superiority of Russia denied by Western chronicles.

Member of the Medical Academy Sergei Konovalov is also making a name for himself, in contrast even to the Russian Orthodox Church itself, with his energy-informative doctrine, according to which 'life on Earth comes from sources other than those hitherto propagated'. The doctor presents himself as a 'mediator between cosmic reason and mankind', to 'lift mankind out of suffering', restoring harmony with occult forces.

There are also those who are able to offer extra-sensory medicines, such as the deputy director of the chair of bio-organic chemistry at Mgu University, Vladimir Voejkov. To take advantage of these miraculous preparations, one has to record them on an old-fashioned CD and insert it into a reader, and then 'the computer copies of Preduktal and Arbidol, which activate the energies of artesian waters, are opened'.

Thanks to these computer-analogue guides, one can then drink 'intelligent water', which from the tap at home can reach all the wounds and weaknesses of the body. In a film broadcast on state TV, the water is shown under a microscope, and the water cells speak, say 'thank you' and 'sorry', or even 'I dislike you'.

The climax of the pseudo-science of the new Russia is reached by the director of cosmic systems at the Khruničev Institute, Aleksej Varočko, who claims that the Russian Sputnik 'Jubileinyj' is able to deviate from the Earth's orbit without being attracted by gravity and transform itself into a 'Gravitsappa', a mythological device from Russian science fiction films, a reactor that allows cosmic stations to make intergalactic journeys. With the new patriotic science, in short, Russia will conquer not only this world, but the entire universe.