A photograph of the advertising poster, which allegedly appeared in one of the medical laboratories of the Ukrainian Lviv, which offers a new service: DNA test for the absence of Russian genes, spread in social networks. We checked the truthfulness of this photo.
According to the poster, they offer customers of the medical laboratory to make a DNA test for the availability of "Gene Moskal". According to the test results, the patient will be able to receive a medical certificate that he is a “purebred Ukrainian”. Many Telegram channels drew attention to this service (Zergulio, "Ostashko! Important","Ukraine.ru" Rogandar News, "Kherson.ru","Urgent and accurately. War news"). Authors Blogs We conducted a parallel with the research of Aryan doctors in Nazi Germany and the discrimination of “dirt” in the books of Joan Rowling about Harry Potter. Some Russian media ("Gazeta.ru","Tsargrad","Truth.ru") Were indignant at such a proposal of the Lviv laboratory, Name His "Nazi initiative." REGNUM.RU mentioned the Lviv poster in the context of the statement of the State Duma deputy Sergey Mironovthat in Ukraine, after persecution of priests, persecution of cultural figures will begin, and then they will look for the “Gene of Muscovite”.
Judging by information in catalog clinic and search According to Google Maps, only five laboratories in Lviv offer a DNA test for paternity (the first item in the list of services offered on an advertising poster). We checked the sites of all five medical facilities and did not find a mention of the test on the "Muscovite Genes". In addition, the corporate identity of these five laboratories differs from the design of three posters, which can be seen in a photograph allegedly taken in one of the Lviv laboratories. Search online for the text of the ad ("DNA Test for Moskaliv Geni - 6500 UAH; For the results of the test, a document about those, a purebred Ukrainian, also did not give results to the off.
But the search for the text of two neighboring ads hanging on the same board showed where these posters were copied from. The first announcement - on the left - this is a message about the vaccination program taken from site Ukrainian clinic "Medican". This network has six clinics branchesAt the same time, they are all in Kyiv. The “medic” has no branches in Lviv.
Search for the text of the second ad - on top - brought us to website Airport "Kyiv" named after Sikorsky. The text of the announcement lists the advantages of passing the PCR test to Covid-19 at this airport, including ensuring the social distance in the Spacious Hall of the Airport.
None of the sources that published a picture of the announcement boards specified in which Lviv laboratory he was made. Some media Reference On Telegram channels. And Telegram channels They saythat the photograph was sent by the subscriber. The earliest publication we found appeared in Telegramchannel “Urgent and accurately. War News ”in the evening of November 30, 2022. At the end of the post, the author writes: "Thanks to Eugene and his relative for the information." At the same time, in the post there is neither a link to the profile of Eugene, nor clarification of the name of the laboratory.
It is worth noting separately that such tests allegedly offered by the Lviv laboratory, even in theory, cannot accurately distinguish "Ukrainian genes "p "Russian genes. " The authors of one of the most extensive research The genotype of the Slavs They came In the conclusion that most of the Eastern Slavs (Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians) are genetically very similar. In addition, such DNA tests have many restrictions. For example, the results of one person may change over time, since laboratories expand the list of tested customers and complement the database with which the studied sample is then verified. In a curious one experiment 2019 journalists asked a couple of twins (with almost identical DNA) to make a nationality test in five different laboratories. In all five cases, the results of the twins differed from each other, and their nationality changed from the test to the test. After that, the geneticist of one of these laboratories saidthat determining the nationality of man by his DNA is half a science, half art. Despite this, companies (including Ukrainian) Anyway, they offer such tests for nationality.
Nevertheless, by the aggregate of the analyzed facts, it is possible to say with a high degree of confidence that the “test for the Muscovites” is an invention of an anonymous Internet user. Most likely, someone created a poster on a computer, hung an accident on an accidental board, took a picture and distributed it through Telegram. Not a single laboratory in Lviv advertises a similar test online. And two other ads in the photo were most likely downloaded from the Internet and added to the board to give reliability to this fake.
Image on the cover: Wikipedia, Telegram
Most likely not true
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