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| During 2001-2002 popular French TV presenters Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff published several papers, consisting of incoherent stream of buzzwords of modern physics, in five physics journals. The incident has been termed a "reverse Sokal Affair", though Bogdanoff brothers, unlike Sokal, do not admit to hoax, but claim that their papers are scientific. They even used "research" reported in those papers to get doctorate degrees in theoretical physics from from the University of Bourgogne, France. | |||
| In 2002, two brothers (Igor and Grichka Bogdanov), managed to get several papers published to physics journals which were wrongfully considered by a French physicist, Max Niedermaier, as a hoax similar (to Sokal) pseudoscience under a layer of dense technical jargon. Max Niedermaier retracted publicly and the brothers have since defended their theories (which claim to deal with the area of topological field theory), and the veracity of their work seems to have recently gained new supporters among certain researchers in theoretical physics : http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/bogdanoff-papers.html. | |||
| In 2004 they published a book ("Before the Big Bang") and made a TV show from it where they presented their own so-called theory as the bleeding edge of modern physics and cosmology. Both are full of egregious nonsense (such as "The volume of the solar system has grown twice since the beginning of Earth's history"). | |||
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During 2001-2002 popular French TV presenters Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff published several papers, consisting of incoherent stream of buzzwords of modern physics, in five physics journals. The incident has been termed a "reverse Sokal Affair", though Bogdanoff brothers, unlike Sokal, do not admit to hoax, but claim that their papers are scientific. They even used "research" reported in those papers to get doctorate degrees in theoretical physics from from the University of Bourgogne, France.
In 2004 they published a book ("Before the Big Bang") and made a TV show from it where they presented their own so-called theory as the bleeding edge of modern physics and cosmology. Both are full of egregious nonsense (such as "The volume of the solar system has grown twice since the beginning of Earth's history").
External links
- A discussion of the controversy.
- Additional discussion with various people related to the brothers academically.
- «Pot-Pourri» from Igor & Grichka Bogdanov's Before the Big Bang
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