Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood

It's always confused me how someone that believes in a religion can be a scientist. They directly contradict each other. It just makes it sound like people are in denial.

It's embarrassing that he even got that far.

Mixed feelings, on one hand it's good he is out, on the other hand it is shameful they let him get to such an incredibly high level of authority and left him there for so long.

How did that numpty ever end up in the Academy of Science in the first place?

wow, that headline is a whole journey

Christians will cite this as an example of them being persecuted. Guaranteed.

Am I on Lemmy, or the SCP wiki?

bruh what

Bit of a tangent, but from what I can tell the language barrier (and cold war history) really doesn't do Russia any favours. Because so many Russians speak poor English, they're effectively cut off from the English speaking world.

Obviously, the Anglosphere has more than enough weird conspiracies, and there is some bleed through, but Russia has surprisingly popular stuff like Fomenko's New Chronology. For those wondering:

The new chronology is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later. The conspiracy theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde"

A rare time I agree with Russia.

Saw recent Russian plan to solve road accidents, by having Russian Orthodox priest spread holy water on roads to bless them. This story seems inline.

How long until this guy finds his way to Florida?

This is the brain drain in effect. Scientists and intellectuals fled russia when the war with Ukraine began and the sanctions were incoming.

Lyskenko LIVES!

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Although the report did not give a reason for the firing of Alexander Kudryavtsev, the influential Russian Orthodox Church called it religious discrimination.

Yeah, I don't think they care.

Anyone else find it funny how the values bleed over in both directions? It's westerners that would complain about discrimination, in Russia, that's just life. Life is hard, so no whining, more or less. Off to the front lines with you.

why do i need to hear about Kacapstan, they're irrelevant