The Commission on Pseudoscience (Russian: Комиссия по борьбе с лженаукой) is a Russian scientific organisation under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences , created on the initiative of Vitaly Ginzburg in 1998. Until 2018, the organisation was a member of the Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research, since 2018 it has been independent. The commission's task is to promote scientific knowledge and counter the discrediting of science and pseudoscientific activity. The prerequisite for the emergence in the structure of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) of a separate body focused on countering the spread of pseudoscientific theories was their widespread distribution in Russia in the 1990s. Unproven theories were popular even in the highest echelons of power: in the book Scientists from the Highway, Academician of the RAS and future chairman of the Commission on Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research Eduard Kruglyakov described the case when then Russia's president Boris Yeltsin's security guard Alexander Korzhakov introduced Yeltsin to the author of research on obtaining energy from stone, and Yeltsin approved the allocation of 120 million rubles to the "inventor", despite the protest of the scientific community. It is known from biographical materials that Yeltsin also believed in psychics, and Korzhakov's first deputy, Georgy Rogozin, provided the president's occult protection. More information...
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