He came to trial and was convicted in March 2012. [18], In 2001, the Czechoslovak Journal of Physics accepted an article written by Igor Bogdanov, entitled "Topological Origin of Inertia". [3] His advisors subsequently agreed to allow him to obtain a doctorate if he could publish three peer-reviewed journal articles. The magazine was eventually ordered to pay 64,000 in damages, much less than the 800,000 each which the Bogdanoffs had originally demanded. [58][59] Mia Jovanovi, the rector and owner of Megatrend University, wrote a preface for the Serbian edition of Avant le Big Bang. released before the COVID-19 pandemic back in January, was . [15], In 2002, the Bogdanoffs launched a new weekly television show, Rayons X (X Rays), on the French public channel France 2. ADS. French TV star Igor Bogdanoff has passed away aged 72 after catching Covid, reports say. [3][8] Around the same time, Igor Bogdanov failed the defense of his thesis. [4] Her pregnancy by African-American tenor Roland Hayes caused her to forfeit access to her four elder children, to her palatial homes in Berlin and Prague, and also her reputation in European society. [12], In a letter to The New York Times, Cornell physics professor Paul Ginsparg wrote that the contrast between the cases was plainly evident: "here, the authors were evidently aiming to be credentialed by the intellectual prestige of the discipline rather than trying to puncture any intellectual pretension." Overbye's article in The New York Times voiced this opinion,[2] for example, as did Declan Butler's piece in Nature. 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The Bogdanovs have claimed that the "domain name 'th-phys.edu.hk' was owned by Hong Kong University. Regarding the Bogdanov publications, physicist Steve Carlip remarked: Referees are volunteers, who as a whole put in a great deal of work for no credit, no money, and little or no recognition, for the good of the community. Sometimes a referee makes a mistake. [15], In October 2002, the Bogdanovs released an email containing apparently supportive statements by Laurent Freidel, then a visiting professor at the Perimeter Institute. French TV star Igor Bogdanoff has died at the age of 72. In April 2012, a group of 170 scientists published an open letter titled L'affaire Bogdanoff: Libert, Science et Justice, Des scientifiques revendiquent leur droit au blme (The Bogdanoff Affair: Liberty, Science and Justice, scientists claim their right of critique). (According to The New York Times, Sokal was "almost disappointed" that the Bogdanovs had not attempted a hoax after his own style. [14][26] However, Igor Bogdanov has maintained that Professor Yang is a real mathematical physicist with expertise in KMS theory, a friend of his, and that he was posting anonymously from Igor's apartment. Eventually, the controversy attracted mainstream media attention, opening new avenues for physicists' comments to be disseminated. Their names are Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, and they're from France. Sometimes two referees make mistakes at the same time. However, as per the news, Grichka has passed away at the age of 72. In 1999, Grichka Bogdanoff earned a mathematics Ph.D. from the University of Burgundy (Dijon). In August 2004, they presented a 90-minute special cosmology program in which they introduced their theory among other cosmological scenarios. Overbye wrote that Jackiw was intrigued by the thesis, although it contained many points he did not understand. [42] The Bogdanoffs also sued the CNRS for 1.2 million in damages, claiming that the CNRS report had "port atteinte leur honneur, leur rputation et leur crdit" ("undermined their honor, reputation and credit") and calling the report committee a "Stasi scientifique", but a tribunal ruled against them in 2015 and ordered them to pay 2,000. Le Monde quoted Alain Connes, recipient of the 1982 Fields Medal, as saying, "I didn't need long to convince myself that they're talking about things that they haven't mastered. They were involved in a number of controversies, most notably the Bogdanov affair, which brought to light the fact that the brothers had written nonsensical advanced physics papers that were nonetheless published in reputable scientific journals. referees give opinions; the real peer review begins after a paper is published.[67]. [49] According to former education minister Luc Ferry, a friend of the brothers, they had both received botox injections for cosmetic treatment. [11] In contrast, Ignatios Antoniadis (of the cole Polytechnique), who approved Grichka Bogdanoff's thesis, later reversed his judgment of it. Though the family of her mother shuns her after engaging in an affair with an African-American musician. [20] Niedermaier suggested that the Bogdanoffs' Ph.D. theses and papers were "spoof[s]", created by throwing together instances of theoretical-physics jargon, including terminology from string theory: "The abstracts are delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords which apparently have been taken seriously. Elsewhere, an added word demonstrated, according to Majid, that "Bogdanov does not understand his own draft results." The Bogdanovs quickly became a popular discussion topic, with most respondents agreeing that the papers were flawed. 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I first learned of the relevant papers in a posting on the internet by Dr. John Baez. "[12] After the publication of the article and the publicity surrounding the controversy, mathematician Greg Kuperberg posted to Usenet a statement written by the journal's senior publisher, Andrew Wray, and its co-editor, Hermann Nicolai. Much mystery surrounds the biography of the twins, who have encountered numerous legal problems. They had no connection to, or involvement with, their father's family, and were raised by their maternal grandmother, Countess Bertha Kolowrat-Krakowsk (18901982),[3] in her castle in southern France. [4]) Baez, who made a comparison between the two affairs, later retracted, saying that the brothers "have lost too much face for [withdrawing the work as a hoax] to be a plausible course of action". With the death of Grichka Bogdanoff, a whole part of the 1980s died out. [71], Igor and Grichka Bogdanov have and had vigorously insisted upon the validity of their work, while in contrast, Sokal was an outsider to the field in which he was publishinga physicist, publishing in a humanities journaland promptly issued a statement himself that his paper was a deliberate hoax. [45] Jovanovi himself later became embroiled in controversy and resigned his post, when he was found out to not have obtained a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics as he had claimed. Antoniadis told Le Monde, I had given a favorable opinion for Grichka's defense, based on a rapid and indulgent reading of the thesis text. The much-anticipated New York Times article on the Bogdanov scandal has appeared. A controversy began on the French Wikipedia when Igor Bogdanov and his supporters began to edit that encyclopedia's article on the brothers, prompting the creation of a new article dedicated to the debate (Polmique autour des travaux des frres Bogdanov"Debate surrounding the work of the Bogdanov brothers"). Reddit. Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Frstliche Huser XIX. In August 2004, they presented a 90-minute special cosmology program. "Colloredo-Mannsfeld". 12729. [9] That journal ceased publication in 2005. Legend tells that they are higher beings of an incalculable and unprecedented historical significance. Igor Bogdanoff's family decided not to disclose the cause of his death (Image: Getty) [2][10], The Bogdanov brothers themselves participated in the online discussions, sometimes using pseudonyms or represented by friends acting as proxies. Starke Verlag, 2011, pp. D'origine russe, il tait n le 28 janvier 1928 Saint-Ptersbourg. Presenter Grichka Bogdanoff has died at the age of 72. [15], In October 2004, a journalist from Ciel et Espace interviewed Shahn Majid of Queen Mary, University of London about his report on Grichka Bogdanov's thesis. The first was on December 29 and the second on January 3. . "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander", he said. [50][51] There was never a substantive ruling on whether the Bogdanovs had been defamed. [1][2] The brothers each studied applied mathematics in Paris, but then began careers in television, hosting several popular programs on science and science fiction. On 4chan, the brothers are associated with a list of grandiose conspiracy theories, which are often listed whenever someone asks for a "quick rundown" on the twins. C.A. [38], The police detained and interrogated Riazuelo. [10], The brothers began careers in television, hosting several popular programs on science and science fiction. The TV personality's death came just six days after that of his identical twin brother Grichka, who died on 28 December. THE BOGDANOFF TWINS (DUMP IT) Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff's personalities and appearance have served as source material for all kinds of memes long before they were adopted by the crypto community. 10 hours agoFrench celebrity twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff have died within six days of each other after contracting COVID-19. Igor Yourivitch Bogdanoff (French pronunciation:[i jui.evit bdanf]; 29 August 1949 3 January 2022) and Grgoire "Grichka" Yourivitch Bogdanoff (French:[ewa ika]; 29 August 1949 28 December 2021) were French twin television presenters,[1] producers, and essayists who, from the 1970s on, presented various subjects in science fiction, popular science, and cosmology. The BBC said the un [35][43], In 2005, the Bogdanoffs became professors at Megatrend University in Belgrade, where they were appointed to Chairs of Cosmology and made directors of the 'Megatrend Laboratory of Cosmology'. [12], Suspicions were consequently raised that Professor L. Yang was actually a pseudonym of the Bogdanovs. They were both (could still be, I dunno) TV presenters and producers, and scientific essayists. [56] They were 72 and both were unvaccinated. In 2002, after publishing the requisite articles, Igor was given a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. This is surely an indictment of something, but its relevance to string theory is marginal at best.[65]. However, after the publication of the article and the publicity surrounding the controversy, mathematician Greg Kuperberg posted to Usenet a statement written by the journal's senior publisher, Andrew Wray, and its co-editor, Hermann Nicolai. The Bogdanoff twins, however, always denied having any plastic surgery. They explain that they have found proof that their father was the descendant of a prince, the right arm of Tsar Peter the Great", that "according to them, Youra was a young artist [] he would have followed 'a solid training as a painter as a free auditor at the Beaux-Arts'", and that "it was there, according to the twins, who love romance, that a "famous writer" met in Paris would have introduced Youra to their grandmother". A pair of non-string theorists were able to get nonsensical papers generally not about string theory published in journals not generally used by string theorists. (According to George Johnson, the Foucault pendulum is "an icon of French science that would belong in any good Gallic spoof. She "chased him away", leading him to be absent from his sons' lives until they were ten years old, and subsequently divorced from Maya. Igor and Grichka gained popularity as television presenters, producers and . Yet this rephrasing is itself equivalent to the statement, If this was the essence of the statement, Baez noted, it cannot be very useful in "explaining the origin of inertia".[27]. [74] The observation was later confirmed by studies showing that high-prestige journals struggle to reach average reliability. Now they look like crazy . Jackiw defended the thesis: All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. But before his tragic death, . Knowledge pertaining the Bogdanoffs is known as the Bogpill, a term that is a nod to the Matrix's red/blue pill scene. it does not surprise me much that Roman Jackiw said that the paper satisfied everything he expects from an acceptable paperthe knowledge of the jargon and some degree of original ideas. The Bogdanoffs quickly became a popular discussion topic, with most respondents agreeing that the papers were flawed. Both the book and the Bogdanovs' television shows have been criticized for elementary scientific and mathematical inaccuracies. I'm a little surprised that anyone is surprised at this. According to Sternheimer, the twins viewed themselves as "the Einstein brothers" and had a propensity to voice vague, "impressionistic" statements; he considered guiding their efforts "like teaching My Fair Lady to speak with an Oxford accent. A fine of 2,000 euros the court imposed was suspended, and only one euro of damages was awarded. Bogdanoff subsequently described this version as "dating from 1991 and too unfinished to be made public". Pot-Pourri from Igor & Grichka Bogdanov's Before the Big Bang, A small journey in the Bogdanoff universe, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bogdanov_affair&oldid=1123916416, This page was last edited on 26 November 2022, at 11:18. The death of Igor Bogdanoff, 72, was confirmed on Monday evening by his lawyer Edouard de Lamaze, as . [] Rarely have we seen a hollow work dressed with such sophistication"). French TV star, Igor Bogdanoff, has died aged 72 after catching COVID-19 - just six days after his twin brother Grichka passed away from the virus. "[44] Later, Majid claimed in a Usenet post that, in an addendum to Avant Le Big Bang, Grichka intentionally misquoted Majid's opinion on the way this interview had been transcribed. The controversy began in 2002, with an allegation that the twins, popular celebrities in France for hosting science-themed TV shows, had obtained PhDs with nonsensical work. But the most famous paper about the solution of the initial singularity is a bit different; it is more sophisticated. "[19] The paper was accepted by the journal seven months later. [20], The paper in question was, however, not officially withdrawn by the journal. Since 1991, they signed their books as "Bogdanov", preferring "v" to "ff". [] It would take up too much space to enumerate all the mistakes: indeed it is difficult to say where one error ends and the next begins. The dispute then spread to the English Wikipedia. The Bogdanoff Brothers. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are born to the nobility. This has been the basis of concerns raised about the efficacy of the peer-review system that the scientific community and academia use to determine the merit of submitted manuscripts for publication; one concern is that over-worked and unpaid referees may not be able to thoroughly judge the value of a paper in the little time they can afford to spend on it. Igor and Grichka, 71, look unrecognizable today - compared to when they first found fame on French television in the 1970s. They lived a similar life in everything. Igor Yourievitch Bogdanoff and Grichka Yourievitch Bogdanoff who since the 1970s, the twin brothers have presented numerous issues in science . Cependant, cela ne les prive pas thoriquement de la possibilit de confirmer nouveau leur droit au titre de prince sur les voies de la grce du chef de la maison impriale de, (entry in the French academic library directory), Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, "Youra Bogdanoff, pre des clbres frres Igor et Grishka Bogdanoff est dcd cette semaine. [15], The twins became popular Internet memes, especially among enthusiasts of cryptocurrency, jokingly depicting the Bogdanoffs as "all-powerful market makers". ; French Physicists' Cosmic Theory Creates a Big Bang of Its Own", "The Emperor's New Science: French TV Stars Rock the World of Theoretical Physics", "Ideas & Trends: In Theory, It's True (Or Not)", "France's Bogdanoff TV twins die of Covid six days apart", "INSPIRE-HEP citation information for Bogdanov papers", "Theses spark twin dilemma for physicists", "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? [52] But in passing judgement the court stated that the scientist had "lacked prudence", given "the fame of the plaintiff". Read more: [5 accurate crypto trader memes to help navigate this hellscape industry]But Igor and Grichka became the center of academic controversy starting in 2002. 05/19/10 07:41PM. The Register reported on the dispute on 1 November 2002,[23] and stories in The Chronicle of Higher Education,[12] Nature,[20] The New York Times,[11] and other publications appeared soon after. Did you know that the Bogdanoff twins rose to prominence hosting a French science fiction series that repurposed footage from shows like Doctor Who and The T. [9][10] The controversy over the Bogdanovs' work began on October 22, 2002, with an email sent by University of Tours physicist Max Niedermaier to University of Pittsburgh physicist Ezra T. ), Technically, their paper connects too many things. The paper was discussed extensively at the annual Editorial Board meeting and there was general agreement that it should not have been published. They were 72. He added that the fact some journals and scientific institutions have low or variable standards is "hardly a revelation". These brothers fuck. He continued, "But the increasingly low standard of coherence in the whole field is what allowed them to think they were doing something sensible and to get it published. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff have seen a dramatic alteration post-surgery. Since then several steps have been taken to further improve the peer review process in order to improve the quality assessment on articles submitted to the journal and reduce the likelihood that this could happen again. After several rounds of plastic surgery and botox, the brothers ended up with a shocking appearance. "[4]) Schreiber identified five central ideas in the Bogdanovs' work"'result' A" through "'result' E"which are expressed in the jargon of statistical mechanics, topological field theory and cosmology. I recommend the paper for publication but in a revised form. Igor was born 40 minutes before Grichka. They were born in France on August 29, 1949. Majid also described more than ten other modifications of meaning, each one biased towards "surestimation outrancire""outrageous over-estimation". Dictionnaire de la noblesse russe. One bit of jargon, the Hagedorn temperature, comes from string theory, but as Schreiber notes, the paper does not use this concept in any detail; moreover, since the paper is manifestly not a string theory treatise, "considering the role the Hagedorn temperature plays in string cosmology, this is bordering on self-parody." In particular the sentences "it does not meet the standards expected of articles in this journal" and "The paper was discussed extensively at the annual Editorial Board meeting and there was general agreement that it should not have been published" were removed. Rather than suing Riazuelo for defamation, Bogdanov filed a criminal complaint of copyright (droit d'auteur) violation against him in May 2011. The Bogdanovs then attributed the quoted passages to Freidel, who said, "I'm very upset about that because I have received e-mail from people in the community asking me why I've defended the Bogdanov brothers. Look at any before and after photos to see that she has undergone an extensive amount of . This almost goes without saying; for a quantum system, the KMS condition is just the concrete definition of thermodynamic equilibrium. [62][63] A review in Science et Vie found that the book was light on detail and never actually said what the "Bogdanov equation" is: "Et arriv la conclusion, on n'est mme plus trs certain qu'elle existe rellement" ("Arriving at the conclusion, one is no longer even very certain that it really exists"). One of the referees' reports stated that the article was "Sound, original, and of interest. Surely you've seen bad papers published in good journals before this! Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were identical twin brothers born to Maria "Maya" Dolores Franzyska Kolowrat-Krakowsk (1926-1982), of Bohemian and Polish descent, and Yuri Mikhalovitch Bogdanoff (1928-2012), [2] an itinerant Russian farm worker, later a painter. [34], Motl's measured support for "Topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime", however, stands in stark contrast to Robert Oeckl's official MathSciNet review, which states that the paper is "rife with nonsensical or meaningless statements and suffers from a serious lack of coherence," follows up with several examples to illustrate his point, and concludes that the paper "falls short of scientific standards and appears to have no meaningful content. "[31] An official report from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), which became public in 2010, concluded that the paper "ne peut en aucune faon tre qualifi de contribution scientifique" ("cannot in any way be considered a scientific contribution"). Igor, 72, has died in hospital reportedly from Covid jus [13] Sociologist of science Harry Collins noted that all of the early reports of the incident made reference to the Sokal affair, and he speculated that without Sokal's precedent bringing the idea of hoax publications to mind, the Bogdanov papers would have sunk into the general obscurity of non-influential scientific writing. [a] Moreover, Die Zeit quoted Nicolai as saying that had the paper reached his desk, he would have immediately rejected it. [12] In September 2006, the case was dismissed after the Bogdanovs missed court deadlines; they were ordered to pay 2,500 euros to the magazine's publisher to cover its legal costs. "[23] The following year, the Chinese Journal of Physics published Igor Bogdanov's "The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale". Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, now 60, had chin implants . Yesterday it was reported that Igor Bogdanoff, one half of the popular crypto meme duo, has passed away only days after his twin brother, Grichka. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff starred in '80s French sci-fi shows. Majid said that the French version of his report on Grichka's thesis was "an unauthorized translation partially invented by the Bogdanovs." [10] The story spread in public media, prompting Niedermaier to offer an apology to the Bogdanovs, admitting that he had not read the papers firsthand. Twin French TV stars die after contracting COVID-19 00:30 Paris Controversial French TV stars and famous twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were inseparable in life, and in death. [3], Grichka Bogdanov was given a PhD by the University of Burgundy (Dijon) in 1999,[7] though this doctorate is sometimes erroneously described as having been granted by the cole Polytechnique. [25], Both Baez and, later, Peter Woit noted that content was largely repeated from one Bogdanov paper to another.[12][26]. The weekly was eventually ordered to pay 64,000 euros in damages, a quantity less than the Bogdanovs had originally demanded (in excess of 800,000 euros each). It showed some originality and some familiarity with the jargon. [] Rarely have we seen a hollow work dressed with such sophistication").[38][39]. ), officially written in English by Lubo Motl and translated into French. THE Bogdanoff twins were known for their extreme cosmetic enhancements - but there was more to their lives than plastic surgery. Schreiber concludes that the fourth "result" (that the spacetime metric "at the initial singularity" must be Riemannian) contradicts the initial assumption of their argument (an FRW cosmology with pseudo-Riemannian metric). It was around this time that the twin brothers reached their peak with a futuristic anticipation TV show, before being criticized for the credibility of their scientific work and being taunted for their transformed physique. [3], Although the Bogdanoff twins claimed to be descended paternally from a noble Muslim Tatar family traceable to the beginning of the 17th century (originally from Penza, one of whose mirzas converted to Orthodox Christianity, and was rewarded with the title of prince by a decree from Tsar Feodor III; the mirza did not exercise this right, and the title of "Prince Bogdanoff" was lost by the end of the 19th century),[5][6][citation needed] there is scant evidence for that. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff became famous in the 1980s after hosting sci-fi shows on French TV, and became well known for their dramatic plastic surgery in recent years, despite denying they had . "[40] This was not confirmed officially by HKU and no Prof. Yang existed on the roster of the HKU physics department; nor did the university have an "International Institute of Mathematical Physics". 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