At the turn of May and June 2024, the mailing list spread in WhatsApp and other messengers, which tells about the Mutant Palestinian vipers-they were supposedly brought out in Ukrainian biolaboratories and, with the help of drones, were taken to the Moscow region. We checked the reliability of this story.
In a viral message that has been diverging through WhatsApp and Telegram, and also Facebook, "VKontakte"," Odnoklassniki "and other social networks, the following is said (author's spelling and punctuation are preserved):
Be careful and attentive in the forest!
According to our sources in the central toxic-serpetric (studying snake bites) laboratory at the FSB of the Moscow Region, both cases of people's bites with vipers this week gave very strange results of the tests.
Firstly, the very appearance of the viper is absolutely unusual-both attacks on people were committed by the mutated Palestinian viper Werner (Daboia Palaestinae), which, as you know, should not be here at all. But this is still half -worn. But the poison itself ...
It was compared with laboratory samples of poisons (there are a whole library there, several thousand pans, collected over the past 70 years in all corners of the planet) - and, attention, this poison did not coincide with any of them!
Scientists immediately scored into the bells - because it is almost impossible to understand the effects of this poison without analysis of all components - but the existing equipment does not allow this.
The main working version of scientists is that this is some kind of special poison with a “negative genesis” (incomprehensible nature) and, in combination with mutated species of viper, this leads to thoughts about the man-made nature of the viper and poison.
Between themselves, the laboratory staff whisper that these vipers and this poison are bred in the NATO bio-laboratories of Ukraine, and deliver them to the Moscow Region-right, drones.
More than 100 bastards will easily fit into one drone - even if it is played - many of them will survive and spread through the forests. This explains the absence of explosions when knocking down drones - because there is no explosives, there are vipers there. There is nothing to explode.
Scientists also lead to parallels with the 50s of the last century, when the Americans dumped the larvae of the Colorado beetle from balloons to the territory of the former USSR-after all, we did not have it until then. The same handwriting, scientists believe.
Let's see what will happen next. In the meantime, we carefully look under the feet.
🙏 and send your loved ones and friends. God protects the banned!
In fact, this newsletter appeared last year. Almost verbatim coinciding with its text, posts can be found in social networks And on Blog-platforms. The earliest publication, which “verified” discovered using the service ”Mediaology", Appeared on June 29, 2023 in the group" News News "in VKontakte (now recording Remove). The group is engaged in the sale of cosmetics, tells news about life in Voronezh and supports the Russian war against Ukraine. The “News News” administrator could both write a text about the snakes, which are dumped in the suburbs from the drones, and copy it from personal messages. The service we used for analysis cannot “see” the mailing list in WhatsApp, but people, as a rule, share their information in social networks shortly after reading the message on the messenger, so the temporary gap between its receipt and publication on VKontakte is unlikely to be large.
“Mediaology” allows you to analyze the data of 170 “VKontakte and Odnoklassniki” profiles that distributed this text in open profiles within a week after its first appearance, which means they wanted to attract the attention of their audience. 60% of such users are people over 60 years old, another 32% - from 40 to 59 years old. At the same time and In VKontakte, and (contrary to a common stereotype) In "Odnoklassniki" The most active users are representatives of the age group 35–44. The imbalance observed in the results of the analysis in the direction of the elderly unambiguously shows that it is they who take on the task of warning others from dangerous reptiles allegedly dropped in the Moscow Region. Mostly women are engaged in this (73%).
The newsletter develops the usual Russian -speaking reader myth On the biological weapon allegedly developed in Ukraine in combination with the fear of drones at the same time, which has become no less familiar to residents of central Russia. However, in most publications of the Russian state media, quoting officials and the military, stories about such secret weapons are often abstract in nature and are deprived of details. Here, the threat is completely detailed - these are vipers of a certain type, and their poison (with “negative genesis”) is brought in Ukrainian laboratories to high mortality.
The authors of the newsletter are based on information obtained from sources from the “toxic-serpentological laboratory under the FSB of the Moscow Region”. However, such a division of the Russian special services does not exist. But the vipers mentioned in the text Daboia Palaestinae - Not fiction. In the wild, these poisonous snakes Meet On the territory of Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.
"Verified" asked to comment on the mailing of a herpetologist Leonid Neymark. According to him, the scenario described in the text, in which Palestinian vipers are experiencing a shot of drone is unrealistic. “These are massive terrestrial snakes, the fall from a great height is deadly for them,” the expert emphasizes. He adds that, even surviving after such a trip on the drone to the Moscow region, the reptile is unlikely to be active: “The Palestinian viper in the suburbs will not instantly die, but it will be inactive, it will lie under the log until the first frosts and then he will die. A very heat -loving look. "
No less fantastic Neymark considers information about some unknown to science, allegedly discovered in the analyzes taken from the inhabitants of the Moscow Region:
“To derive a viper with a new composition of poison is a breeding for so long, for so many years there are simply no methods for breeding toxic snakes, they were developed only 30–40 years ago. Genous engineering can theoretically add a new enzyme, but where to get it? To come up with protein, then synthesize the gene encoding it and implant - there are no such technologies for eukaryotes. ”
Talking about the warnings regularly appearing in the press and social networks associated with the increase in the number of snakes in the Moscow region, the scientist notes:
“About the dominance of vipers in the suburbs, [News] now and then. It is difficult to refute them strictly, since no one is engaged in taking them into account, too laborious. But you need to understand that the vipers reach sexual age by years by three usually, that is, they can not bred sharply in one year. Sometimes it happens that spills of reservoirs encourage them to shift closer to the settlement in a particular place, but more often these myths arise from scratch. ”
It is possible that the panic newsletter was just inspired by rumors about the invasion of snakes in the suburbs in June 2023. Big article on this topic June 27 Published The newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets". In social networks, the story of vipers inhabited from Ukraine first appeared two days later.
The viral text ends with a reminder that foreign attackers are already using the long -known “handwriting” - the Americans allegedly dumped the larvae of the Colorado beetles from balloons to the territory of the USSR, which were supposed to destroy potatoes. However, this story is nothing more than artifice Soviet propaganda.
Thus, the newsletter dispersed in 2024 appeared last summer and is based on anonymous sources from a non -existent laboratory. The statements made in the text about the vipers and the possibilities of modern selection of poisonous snakes are unreliable. The likely goal of the newsletter is not only to support the Kremlin propaganda narrative about secret biological weapons, but also to make it more specific to frighten representatives of the older generation.
Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons
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