Downs! Ten prominent covid skeptics - five years ago and now

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March 11, 2020 WHO announcedthat the outbreak of coronavirus SARS-COV-2 (aka Covid-19), recorded in China a few months earlier, acquired the character of the pandemic. Her victims steel more than 7 million people, total I was ill at least 770 million. Although in May 2023 many media reported that WHO announced the end of the pandemic, in fact, the organization only Reduced The level of threat. On her site, she continues to conduct statistics of infected, hospitalized and dead - even when the masks ceased to be part of our everyday life.

In parallel, the world was seized by the infustodia: people tried to find out, explain and tell others why their life has changed as sharply, how to behave and how long it could last. The volume of information on the topic was huge, and a significant part of it turned out to be inaccurate. The data concerned the origin of coronavirus, methods of prevention and treatment, and later vaccination. Six months later WHO and other world organizations warnedthat the inferman jeopardizes the most important conquests of healthcare, and neglect of security measures, motivated by misinformation, postpones the completion of the pandemic.

Among those who distributed fakes and conspiracy theories about coronavirus were numerous activists and artists, as well as doctors and scientists who reinforced misinformation with their own authority. Five years later, Pandemia “Verified” recalls ten celebrities-adherents of Covid-Square, who became especially popular with the Russian-speaking audience, and tells whether their views have changed over the past five years.

Content

• Nikita Mikhalkov, director
• Luke Montagnier, virologist
• Alexander Redko, doctor
• Robert Kennedy - the youngest, lawyer and politician
• Maria Shukshina, actress
• Valentin Katasonov, economist
• Robert Malone, biologist
• Galina Chervonskaya, biologist
• Pavel Vorobyov, doctor
• Igor Gundarov, doctor

Nikita Mikhalkov, director

A native of the famous dynasty, Owner Oscars, the head of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and the Moscow International Film Festival, is known as one of the main Russian pro -government speakers. In 2011, Mikhalkov began to share his socio-political views not only on television or in the press, but also through new media-he started Blog in the "Live Journal", and later and page On VKontakte. The most successful was his YouTube channel “Besogon TV”, where the director regularly laid out videos with his thoughts on various topics. Some videos were subsequently broadcast on the TV channels “Russia 24” and “Spas”.

In his program, Mikhalkov actively covered the Pandemia of Coronavirus. The broadest public outcry caused release Besogon TV dated May 1, 2020 "who has a state in his pocket." In this video, Mikhalkov made a number of statements: about the man -made nature of the coronavirus, the plans of the billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates to reduce the population of the planet by mass chipping through vaccination, which turns people into controlled robots, intending the introduction of social isolation and distance learning to give digital dependence, etc. However, an artificial artificial one The nature of the coronavirus is still Not proven, Gates nothing of the kind I did not think, chips in vaccines No, and the requirements to observe social isolation, as well as to work or study remotely, were canceled after a medical necessity disappeared into them. 

For these and similar statements, Mikhalkov in 2020 was nominated At the Academician of the Honorary Academician, which the pseudoscience popularizers are awarded the Anthropogenesis.ru portal and the Evolutionary Educational Fund. Although the director did not receive a reward, the organizers awarded him a special prize “VROSKAR” with the wording “for an outstanding directorial and acting talent aimed at spreading delusional ideas”.

Despite the criticism of vaccines from Covid-19, in the spring of 2021 Mikhalkov Graduated. “I can say from my own experience that I was vaccinated because I realized that I was losing vigilance: I walk, communicate. I began to catch myself on the fact that I forgot the mask, ”he explained to reporters. Nevertheless, the director continued to accuse the vaccines of harm to health. For example, the responsibility for the death of Alexei Navalny in a colony in February 2024 Mikhalkov Lost On the PFIZER / BIONTECH vaccine, which the policy was allegedly instilled during treatment in Germany in 2020–2021 and which provoked The formation of a thrombus, as well as to the head of the European Commission Ursulu von der Layen, who lobbied for purchases of the drug. At the beginning of 2024, YouTube channel Mikhalkov Blocked “For numerous violations in relation to discriminatory statements,” but the program continued to reach copyright site and Russian streaming platforms.

Luke Montagnier, virologist

Future Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was born in 1932. After graduating from the Sorbonnu, he worked At the Institute of virology in Glasgow, and then headed the viral oncology laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, where he began to study the connection of retroviruses and oncological diseases. In 1983, Montagnier, together with other researchers, was distinguished by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can lead to the syndrome of acquired immunodeficiency (AIDS). That is what opening In 2008, he brought the scientist and his colleague Francoise Barre-Sinussi the Nobel Prize.

Around the same time, Montagnier began to actively promote a row anti -scientific ideas. So, in 2009 he introduced At the conference, the method of diagnosing infections through radio wave signals in water, as well as the technology of DNA reproduction by the method of quantum print (in fact, similar to homeopathy). After publishing an article on this topic He performed in defense of his colleague Jacques Benvenist and his anti -scientific Water memory concepts. Scientist also I was surethat autism is associated with a certain infection of the central nervous system, and suggested treating it with many years of taking antibiotics. Despite many years of study of HIV, the Montagnier began to do Unreasonable statements that strong immunity capable To defeat this virus in a few weeks.

During the pandemic, the scientist became supporter Hypotheses about the artificial origin of coronavirus (it is not proven, but not completely excluded) and supported a variety of conspiracyological narratives about Covid-19 and vaccination against it. In particular, installation assertedthat the PFIZER / BIONTECH vaccine causes outline diseases. Many Conspirologists, which tried to prove one or another Theories, regularly They paid attention The opponents that their arguments are shared by a world -famous virologist. However, it was the coronaviruses of the installation, as far as is known, that he did not engage in objectively.

It is significant that some anti -scientific statements Montaine attributed unjustifiably - for example, the theory that the vaccination of already ill people will supposedly lead to an antibody -dependent increase in infection in their organisms and mortal The outcome for two years. Their posts On this topic, users of social networks are often accompanied Different fragments from the video interview with subtitles in national languages. At the same time, subtitles did not correspond to what the scientist actually said there. Also in social networks distributed The quote attributed to Montagnie, as if all revaccinated from coronavirus were infected with HIV. However, despite his controversial views, and such a virologist did not say such.

Montagnier died on February 8, 2022 at the age of 89, when in most Western countries there were still anti -icing restrictions.

Alexander Redko, doctor

On the personal site Redko It is saidthat he is a surgeon of the highest category with 37 years of experience. In 1974, Redko graduated from the Altai Medical Institute, and he got to Barnaul by distribution, but then moved to Leningrad. In the 1990s, he built a bureau with a medical career in parallel with a medical career: he headed the Health Committee in the St. Petersburg government for a year, then he met for eight years in the city legislative assembly, where he was the chairman of the relevant commission, and also led the St. Petersburg Professional Association of Medical Workers for more than 30 years. Redko also has the title of professor-however, not a medical or biological university, but the St. Petersburg State Engineering and Economic University (it is noteworthy that, judging by the personal site, the doctor occupied this position until 2016, although the university Stopped exist four years earlier).

Although in biographies Redko on the same site says that he defended two doctoral dissertations, “verified” did not find any traces of these works in catalog Russian State Library (RSL). Redko himself noted that his first dissertation (on public health and healthcare) was classified. However, the co -founder of the Dissernet community and the scientific consultant “Checked” Andrei Rostovtsev explained: even in this case, an abstract and protocol for the defense of the dissertation would be in the RSL catalog. 

Also in the biography of Redko reportedthat he is the author of more than 200 scientific works. In the base of the Russian scientific quoting index at the medic all 29 publications, and only three of them went into print until 2004 inclusive (the rest are mostly during the pandemic). This amount is clearly Not enough Even for admission to the defense of a doctoral dissertation, which, according to the personal site of Redko, was held in 2003.

During the pandemic, Covid-19 Redko spread many Covidosceptic and anti-Wax myths:

• “After the vaccination is a person It becomes carrier of infection. Therefore, he is obliged to wear a mask without fail, since he exudes a virus from himself ”(none of the developed vaccines from coronavirus relate to living vaccines, that is, does not contain a living virus, therefore, a person cannot “exude” it after vaccination);
• "[Vaccinated] will Sick twice as often as before vaccination, and it is harder to get sick. Look at the example of Israel: they have increased mortality (twice!) And incidence ”(this forecast is based on incorrect statistics: by data Israeli Ministry of Health, vaccine is very effective in terms of incidence, severe course of the disease, hospitalization and mortality);
• "Immunity After the vaccine, no one guarantees you: the third test phase [Vaccine "Sputnik V"] was not carried out. That is, they actually tell you that you are a participant in the experiment ”(Redko said about this almost three months after publications scientific article with the intermediate results of the third phase of testing).

Unlike Mikhalkov, Redko boasts a reward from the organizers of the anti -a -a -a -aid “Honorary Academician of the I”, which a doctor received In 2021, the distribution of myths about vaccination. Such "recognition" It did not hurt In 2022, he will enter the medical expert council at the Commission on Social Policy and Health of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. 

In recent months Radko Appears as expert on the air of different bloggers, where he still talks about Dangers vaccines, and also 5G towerswho, according to him, increase pressure, cause confusion, problems with memory and changes in the blood (this is all Not true). The doctor also broadcasts popular among Russian propagandists myth The fact that the countries of the West for a reason organized numerous bacteriological laboratories in the countries bordering Russia.

Robert Kennedy - the youngest, lawyer and politician

If in Russia one of the leaders of Covidoskepticism was a representative of the famous artistic dynasty, then in the USA (absolutely predictably) the offspring, possibly, the main political clan of the country. Robert Kennedy is the youngest - son of Prosecutor General Robert Kennedy and nephew of President John Kennedy. After study At Harvard University, the London School of Economics and the University of Virginia, he began to build a legal career: in 1983 he became an assistant to the district prosecutor in Manhattan, but only six months later he was accused of storage heroin and dismissed. During the implementation of public works, Kennedy Jr. became interested in environmental law, in the field of which he subsequently achieved great success. In 1999, Time magazine called a lawyer Environmental hero of the planet For the leadership of the campaign for the restoration of the ecosystem of the Hudson River.

However, in the mid-2000s, Kennedy Jr.'s career made an unexpected turn when he began to promote theories that contradict the scientific consensus. Lawyer toldthat in 2005, several women met him, whose children, according to them, after vaccination were faced with various diseases. They turned to Kennedy Jr. because he then studied the pollution of water bodies with mercury and called the potentially dangerous thiomersal-a mercury-containing compound, which is part of some vaccines. “The vaccines were quite far from my specialization. I have always been for vaccination. I vaccinated all my children and every year I vaccinated against influenza. But I was impressed by these women, ”Kennedy explained. 

Having plunged into the topic, he got acquainted with the publications of the British Andrew Wakefield - a few years earlier, he published in the authoritative scientific journal The Lancet an article proving the connection of polyvaccines from measles, rubella and mumps with the development of autism. However, subsequently an article was withdrawn - It turned out that the author falsified the data and received money from the lawyers of the families who binded the vaccinations and disorders of the autistic spectrum. In addition, shortly before the publication of the Wamefield article Submitted A patent application for its own, safer, in his opinion, Monovaccinin from measles. Impressed by the work of the British, Kennedy Jr. promote his position, and at the end of 2019 even declaredThat Wakefield will erect monuments in the future.

In 2015, Kennedy Jr. headed the organization Children's Health Defense, which distributed (and distributes) alternative views on public healthcare. In particular, she I became One of the main customers of antivacial advertising on Facebook* in 2018-2019. During the pandemic, the organization became one of the largest distributors of misinformation about coronavirus, and its income, formed mainly due to donations, grew up, according to the calculations of journalists, eight times.

During Pandemia, Kennedy Jr. continued to spread unproven statements about the dangers of vaccination, now directing his criticism to the Covid-19 vaccines. Already in April 2020, he, along with Wakefield I participated In an online conference on the danger of using vaccines against coronavirus (the drugs themselves have not even reached clinical trials). In addition to their "classical" warnings, Kennedy is unambiguously Hinted that vaccination from Covid-19 can lead to death, assertedthat flu vaccines increase the risk of getting coronavirus by 36% (no evidence of this No), And insisted On the insactions of vaccinations for pregnant women (although vaccines were tested and recognized as safe, and infection during pregnancy represented risks not only for the mother, but also for the fetus).

In 2024, Kennedy Jr. nominated his candidate for the president of the United States as an independent candidate, but two and a half months before the election I went out From the race and urged supporters to vote for Donald Trump. After the victory of the last Kennedy Jr. was nominated for the post of Minister of Health and Social Services of the United States. During preliminary hearings in the Senate, he assured Congressmen, which is not against vaccines, and renounced from part of his beliefs. In particular, the future minister said: he never said that no vaccine could be called safe and effective. But the fact of CNN remind of the video of 2023, where the politician pronounces literally this phrase. Kennedy Jr. did not deny that Signed A petition against vaccines from Covid-19, but motivated his decision by listening to the opinion of unnamed experts, according to which the mentioned vaccines are not suitable for young children. On the one hand, at the hearing, the politician renounced his statements that pesticides lead adolescents to the desire to make a transgender transition, but on the other - confirmed Your point of view that Lyme's disease is man -made biological weapons (this is not true). Kennedy Jr. also denied that his activity could provoke a flash of measles in Samoa in 2019, although, as suggest Experts, it was the visit of the activist and his rhetoric contributed to the extremely low level of infant and children's immunization in this state.

Apparently, for the first time in the history of the United States, a person, known for his skeptical attitude to evidence -based medicine, was headed by the department responsible for health care.

Maria Shukshina, actress

More than a 20-year career in cinema and a decade and a half on television as a leading program “Wait for me” provided Shukshin with sufficient media capital in order to become one of the most famous Russian fakes and conspiracy theories about coronavirus and especially vaccination since 2020. Moreover, it was not known earlier as a supporter of the anti -infection.

At the Pandemia itself, the artist looked in many ways from a religious position. “All believers Russian people see in modern events the performance of the apocalyptic prophecy of St. John the Theologian. We read the Bible, and we cannot not see this. Before our eyes, all this is performed, we are beating anxiety, our hearts with blood doused for where our children will live, ” - She said She is in July 2020.

One of the favorite expressions of Shukshina in recent years has become the phrase “digital concentration camp”-only in the Telegram channel of the actress it is mentioned more than 30 times. On her opinion, vaccination, QR codes and other measures of the authorities as part of the fight against pandemia brought To the fact that “a dull -headed pricked herd ... converted themselves voluntarily into a category of goods, numbers in the system, and showed these nonhumans who want to be the masters of the world, that most agree to life in an electronic concentration camp, where each step of the digitized prisoner will be resolved or not resolved by a computer.” Shukshina insisted: a vaccinated person cannot remain free. Their like -minded actress collected on round tableswhich were widely covered on the resources of anti -inferications.

She also participated in the spread of several very popular fakes: Debe policies for compulsion to vaccination "in The Lancet magazine, about solution Israeli rabbin court about the "mortal danger" of vaccines, Severe complications tens of thousands of a satellite V in Argentina, about opportunity become infected with outdoor diseases through vaccination, Uselessness vaccination of children, etc.

In November 2021, the chief doctors of 11 Russian hospitals, including hospitals No. 40 in Kommunarka, Wrote An open letter to opponents of the vaccination from coronavirus, among which was Shukshin. Doctors invited them to visit the red zones of hospitals, including resuscitation departments and pathological departments, and see patients with Covid-19 with their own eyes. Actress answered To an invitation on our Instagram: “We are against the non -vaccination process, but the procedure for its implementation, and on this side 80% of the population of Russia (by data “Levada Center” **, in August 2021, about a third of the Russians were not ready to vaccinate a single vaccine from coronavirus. - approx. Ed.). On excursions in the red zone, with all the desire, everything will not fit. We are not against the vaccine, but against the participation of an unexplored vaccine in the experiment. ” YouTube soon Blocked Channel for the actress for the systematic distribution of misinformation.

In 2025, Shukshina still continues to frighten her subscribers to the future digital concentration camp, criticizes The use of vaccines and Repostitis statements by Kennedy Jr. In parallel, the artist, who actually stopped acting in the cinema, actively expressed In support of the Kremlin’s foreign policy, writes denunciations, exposes “unreliable” colleagues in the workshop and calls for fighting not only with the West that imposes values ​​alien to Russia, but also with internal enemies.

Valentin Katasonov, economist

If the Montagnier’s statements reinforced medical and biological conspiracyology, then Catasonov played a similar role for the socio-political theories of the conspiracy around the pandemic. After The end of MGIMO In 1972, the economist worked at first and then his doctoral dissertation and the UN structures, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, and also headed one of his Alma Mater’s departments. In parallel, Katasonov conducted research, published books and articles. In the early 2010s, the focus of his publications shifted towards the conspiracy criticism of the global financial system, which he calls the tool of the world backstage.

The pandemic of the Covid-19, which turned the usual way of life of people around the world, has become a fruitful time for the development of Katasonov’s ideas. In particular, he called Coronavirus with a special operation and a smoke curtain, an allegedly organized world backstage, which has existed for many centuries. According to the scientist, during information pandemic National states It will be possible to destroy, and the world government will come in their place. Five years later, with the announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic, it can be stated that this prophecy has not come true.

Also Catasonov Done Pandemia s Conspirological The theory of the golden billion: “The owners of the money strive to send billions to the next world. People. Citizens of all countries of the world, including even those that are usually attributed to the golden billion. Ultimately, only one billion people should remain on the planet. <...> And it is unlikely that this billion can be called gold. There will be only one million gold in it, yesterday's owners of money, and from now on the owners of the world. And the remaining 999 million will work on them. ” 

However, on the field of non -core fakes of Catason, he also went. For example, he He said: “Together with Nanovaccine, a super -miniature microchip, which is a nanumstep, can be launched into the human body. A person who agreed to a vaccine will not even know that Nanochip was simultaneously introduced into him. ” Catasonov made such a statement in March 2020, long before the start of vaccination. Not in any vaccine approved for the use of months later, nanochips Not contained. 

In the fall of 2021, when vaccination was already going on, Catasonov declared About almost 14,000 Americans who died from the administration of the drug. He referred to the VARS systems, which monitors reports of side effects of vaccines in the United States. But the scientist manipulated the data: by that time the system Received About 8,000 reports about the deaths of the Americans who were vaccinated, but there is no reason to say that they died precisely due to vaccination.

Despite criticism, Katasonov continues to spread conspiracy theories. He still talks about the plans of the world backstage to reduce the population of the planet in the shortest possible time, but Stopped To associate this desire with pandemia, as he did before. In February 2025, Katasonov declaredthat Trump's ally, billionaire Ilon Musk allegedly discovered documents confirming that the Americans were not landing on the moon, and NASA falsified evidence. However, Musk himself does not believe in the so -called lunar conspiracy, and the video, which was dispersed among the conspiracy therapists and on which the Catason reaches, was Teared From context.

Robert Malone, biologist

The American researcher positions himself as an inventor used Including developers of some preparations for coronavirus. Indeed, at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Malone, working at the Institute of Biological Research of Solol, Spent A series of important experiments: for example, demonstrated how to transfer an MRNA protected by a liposome to cultivated cells to launch protein synthesis. In 1990, a scientist became The co -author of the work that showed the possibility of MRNA synthesis in the laboratory for the production of the desired proteins. Malone is the author of more than ten patents and numerous scientific publications with a high level of citation. Moreover, the scientific community Notes: Although Malone’s contribution to the creation of MRNK-Waccines technology is indisputable, it was the result of the work of hundreds of researchers for decades. 

At the beginning of 2020, even before the announcement of the WHO about the pandemic, Malone He began to test The remedy for heartburn Famotid as a potential drug for the treatment of coronaviral infection. Already in April, Alchem ​​Laboratories, the employer of Malone and the manufacturer of the injection form of Famotidin, received a multimillion -dollar contract for additional research from the American authorities. Although the effectiveness of the Covid-19 of this drug was neither then nor later revealed, such a stir arose in the USA around it that the medicine for a while disappeared from the pharmacy shelves.

Also Malone Promoted Treatment of coronavirus with the help of Ivermectin - an antiparasitic agent for animals. He was approved or even recommended for Covid-19 therapy in India, South Africa and many Latin America. However, already in 2021, many studies that formed the basis of these decisions and testified to the effectiveness of the drug, were recognized unreliable, and some are completely falsified. However, this did not stop Malone tell On the effectiveness of Ivermectin in the future. 

Malone also claimed that:

• Spike-beam used, for example, in the Vaccines "Sputnik V" and Johnson & Johnson, possesses cytotoxicity, that is, is able to damage the cells of the body (in fact it cannot Build In the human genome, like influence for the production of other proteins in the body);
• After applying the vaccine arises an effect called an antibody -dependent increase in infection (scientists of such cases Not fixed);
• WHO announcedthat it is important to wear masks, because none of the vaccines prevents the infection (Malone distorted the recommendation that Issued In the summer of 2021, against the background of the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant, it is so contagious that it is even reasonable to continue to wear masks and continue to take measures to prevent the spread of infection).

For these and similar statements, the Malone account on Twitter (now X), to which more than 500,000 users were signed, was Blocked December 29, 2021. After this medic invited First in the podcast Joe Rogan, who counts one of the most popular in the world, and then on show Tucker Carlson on the Fox News TV channel. Malone did not miss the opportunity to share his position with such a wide audience, including Reinforcing their words with false statements. The researcher's blog was Restored Almost a year later, when the platform purchased by billionaire Ilon Mask, Revised Moderation rules.

Recently, Malone is actively Promotes The ideas set forth by him and his wife in their book “Psychological War: establish a new world order”. In his concept, a conspiracyman links The fight against the spread of misinformation, which the online platforms intensified during the pandemic, the development of IT and developed by the exploration of the USA, Great Britain and other countries, psychological weapons capable of manipulating public opinion. The recording of the lecture that Malone read on this topic in August 2024, Collected There are almost 2 million views on YouTube.

Galina Chervonskaya, biologist

Chervonskaya began her scientific career in the middle of the last century, for many years she worked at the Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. N.F. Gamaley (it was there that they developed the "Sputnik V" vaccine), Published In the reviewed magazines more than 20 scientific articles (mainly in experimental virology and under the Maiden of the surname of the Council), Protected Candidate dissertation. Since the late 1980s, she, in fact, completed her academic career, switching to popularizing work. Then Chervon Beginning actively perform against mass vaccination and over time I became The main figure of the anti -infection in the post -Soviet space.

The authority of Chervonskaya in this environment, as in the case of the persons described above, contributed to its scientific past. Moreover, she was not just a physician or biologist, but directly studied viruses. However, a factor could not find evidence that Chervonskaya has a medical education and that it participated in studies on the effects of vaccines on the human body. Moreover, reports about its doctoral degree and professorship are also not confirmed by official sources (but it has There is Anti -premium "Honorary Academician Lie" in 2020).

Chervonskaya popularizes many conspiracy branches about vaccination: actively disseminates statements about the connection BCG vaccines with an epidemic of tuberculosis, influence vaccine on infertility, side effects Vaccines ADD (against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus). She also stands on anti -scientific Positions, as if children who have not received a single dose of a vaccine up to five years, independently develop a unique natural protection against diseases.

During the pandemic Covid-19 Chervonskaya insistedthat the transmitted this infection has been formed for life immunity. But, as further events showed, this is not true: the same person could have aroused coronavirus several times. Trying to prove the danger of vaccines from coronavirus, supporters of conspiracy theories Used Numerous theses of Chervonskaya against other vaccines.

Despite the anti -scientific position of the Chervonskaya, Media They still invite her as expert. Some fragments of her interview become viral In social networks and in 2025. The biologist continues to conduct Seminars for parents, combining anti -vecting rhetoric With criticism of pharmaceutical companies. Chervonskaya books are available on large trading sites.

Pavel Vorobyov, doctor

Vorobyov is a representative medical dynasty. After endings First Moscow Medical Institute. I.M. Sechenov he Provided Assistance to the victims and liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, and two years later - affected by the Spitat earthquake in Armenia. There the doctor applied the innovative method of combating Crash syndrome (toxicosis that occurs due to prolonged ischemia, squeezed with fragments of soft tissues). Vorobyov’s method - plasmapheresis in combination with the introduction of heparin and plasma transfusion - Significantly He reduced mortality and allowed to completely avoid amputations among the victims. This development formed the basis of a doctoral dissertation, which the medic defended in 1997.

Since then Vorobyov Promotes The method of plasmapheresis for the treatment of burns, therapy for septic shock, antiphospholipid syndrome and other conditions. The medic was among those who Offered This method is also to combat Covid-19. In 2020, patients with coronavirus treated with the help of plasmapheresis in the leading Russian hospitals and in other countries, although the Kokrainsky review, published in the spring of 2021, claimsthat recruits-centered plasma does not benefit in the treatment of people with a moderate and heavy form of Covid-19. 

Until 2021, Vorobyov’s statements about coronavirus as a whole did not contradict the scientific consensus. He Recognized The need for quarantine, recommended avoiding public places, noted that there was no specific treatment, and reminded of the need to ventilate the premises and strengthen immunity to reduce the risk of infection. At that time, Vorobyov is quite neutral expressed even about compulsory vaccination, Endingthat vaccines must be carefully checked. Moreover, even then he expressed Concern with post -shoe syndrome and one of the first warnedthat artificial ventilation of lungs in patients with COVID-19 is by no means panaceaAs many then expected, and the use of the IVL apparatus must be postponed as much as possible.

But in the second year of the pandemic, the vector of public statements by the medic has changed dramatically. The main target of the professor was the vaccination as such and the “satellite V” vaccine in particular. For example, Vorobyov He saidthat the vaccine from coronavirus is a genetically modified virus, “on which a piece of another virus is planted, all this is introduced into the blood, the virus enters the cage, where it multiplies, where it begins to secrete some covy particles that then determine the appearance of antibodies.” Actually the virus Can't Propagated in a human cage after it has been recycled for use in the vaccine. Vorobyov Conducted And another argument: “[vaccination -] this is actually embedding in the genome, because we introduce genetic material - RNA. We have a reverse transcriptase mechanism that reads RNA and translates into DNA. And this can embed in the mitochondrial genome and in the cell of the cell. ” However, firstly, the MRNC-vaccines from coronavirus in Russia were not registered, and secondly, scientists Unknown Examples are like that Theoretically possible Reactions. In any case, as Claimed The discoverer of the gene transcriptase gene David Baltimore, fragments of the SARS-COV-2 virus will not lead to the formation of infectious material.

In addition to the vaccine against coronavirus, sparrows Defended And to others: he considers it only necessary a vaccine against poliomyelitis, while, for example, he calls the vaccines against measles and pneumococcus frankly dangerous. The first of them, according to the physician, gives too a short immune response and creates a feeling of false safety. The second protects against some pathogens, but gives green light more dangerous diseases: “People will still have pneumonia. But if they are vaccinated against pneumococcus, then their inflammation will be caused by streptococcus or staphylococcus. These are more dangerous inflammation, they pass heavier, for many lead to death. ” However, how the WHO emphasizes, and in the case Coreyand in the case Pneumococcus Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent.

Back in 2020, the doctor founded his private clinic - "Medical Bureau of Pavel Vorobyov." He is there Promotes The author’s methodology for the treatment of coronavirus infection, in particular, recommends from the very beginning of the disease to take preventive doses of oral anticoagulants. Such a choice is not accidental: now Vorobyov is convinced that the Covid-19 is actually not a virus, but vasculitis (vascular inflammation, which is accompanied by disseminated intravascular redemption). In addition to therapy for coronavirus, acute respiratory infections and acute respiratory infections, in the clinic Provide Consultations and support in the treatment of many other diseases. On the site stipulatedthat all experts offer only an information service to expert evaluation of symptoms and the development of tactics of further diagnosis and treatment, and information assistance, according to the law, is not a medical service. 

Vorobyov also heads the scientific journal "Clinical gerontology", Is part of the board Moscow Scientific Society of therapists and to the editorial board of the magazine "Success of gerontology".

Igor Gundarov, doctor

Until 2020, Gundarov, although Participated In controversial socio-political projects (like a project of a harmonious state in the teachings of Jesus Christ about the “kingdom of God” on earth), in the profile region, he did not manifest himself as an adherent of conspiracy ideas. In 1991, he Protected Doctoral dissertation, in 1994 became a professor at the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. He is also Headed The laboratory under one of the research centers of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation was the chief researcher at the Research Institute at the Moscow Medical Academy named after I.M. Sechenova, expert According to the demography of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In the spring of 2020, Gundarov declaredthat the real danger of the Covid-19 is small, and the statistics of incidence and mortality in Russia are allegedly overstated by his colleagues who receive surcharges for each identified patient. The doctor also criticized measures to combat the spread of pandemia, calling them criminal and worsening the health of the population. In particular, he said that isolating people over 65 years old is stupidity. Instead, the Gundars Offered “Go out into the sun,” because under the influence of sunlight the virus will disappear after a few minutes. From the status of a covid-digger, at the same time he is actively Requipped, emphasizing that the very existence of the virus recognizes. 

In the summer of 2021 Gundarov declaredthat is proud of a low level of vaccination in Russia and that the number of declared deaths from coronavirus every 100, or even more exceeds the real number of deaths from this ailment. In addition, he insisted that it is prohibited to vaccinate during the epidemic (as Explained "Checked", this is not true). Then Gundarov announced Conducting the tribunal to “figure out” the distributors of any information about the coronavirus, but it did not take place. 

Even in 2022 Gundarov insistedthat the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 has not yet been allocated in its purest form, therefore, according to him, any testing for infection is inaccurate. This despite the fact that the complete genetic sequence of the virus was Published Back in January 2020.

But in general, Gundarov almost did not make specific anti -scientific statements, preferring express Unreasonable doubts about statistics - both the incidence of coronavirus and mortality from it. He also actively promoted the idea that different political forces will use the Covid-19 to realize their own interests (and at the same time regularly Critical Russian leadership). Also a doctor more than once called Vaccine "Sputnik V" unfinished - according to its opinion, a high -quality test of its safety and efficiency was never carried out.

In the last three years, the Gundars quite actively Comments The media is no longer a pandemic, but a Russian “special operation” against Ukraine. Although, in general, occupying a proxual position, in 2024 Gundarov allowed The authorities are rather sharp criticism: “What price are we ready to pay for successes in a“ special military operation ”? <...> The price should be demographic or not? Why don't we inform the figures of the dead? From whom are they hidden? They know everything there, up to one soldier. From whom, they hide from us? <...> Children do not make a finger. All who make children, they find themselves in the steppes near Kherson. ”

For more than four years Gundarov Heads The public organization of protection of the rights, health and well -being of a person BOZEP created by him. Her official site offers assistance in various fields: from helping in disputes with developers and protecting consumers to the opportunity to anonymously complain about corruption. Gundarov also teaches at the University of Natural and Humanities. This organization, Based In 2022, he offers a variety of courses for increasing additional education: from state and municipal management to sports massage, from military journalism to mining. Gundarov heads the department there Valeology and social medicine.

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Update dated March 12, 2025: From the section on Igor Gundarov, the phrase was deleted that he distributed conspiracy regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It contained a wrong link. The previous version can be found by link.