The Register reported on the dispute on November 1, 2002,[17] and stories in The Chronicle of Higher Education,[3] Nature,[11] The New York Times, and other publications appeared soon after. [17][11] In 2002, Igor Bogdanoff received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. [56] They were 72 and both were unvaccinated. Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, who were known as the Bogdanoff twins, have passed away at the age of 72. Igor was born 40 minutes before Grichka. "[14], Others compared the quality of the Bogdanov papers with that seen over a wider arena. [14] Using an e-mail address at the domain th-phys.edu.hk, an individual publishing under this name wrote to a number of individuals and on the Internet to defend the Bogdanov papers. The French mainstream media, in both the press and on the Internet, covered the renewed controversy to some extent; media outlets that reported upon it include Acrimed[15] and Ciel et Espace. 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. Genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner observed: "The Bogdanov twins claim that their father was a member of a princely Russian family. Sometimes two referees make mistakes at the same time. Twins meet after a 39-year separation. The Herald noted that the twins' cheekbones had become noticeably larger in the 1990s, and that "growth in their lips and chins continued unabated through the last decade". Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were previously the talks of the town due to their post-surgery facial appearance. [12], In December 2004, the Bogdanovs sued Ciel et Espace for defamation over the publication of a critical article entitled "The Mystification of the Bogdanovs". The Bogdanoff family decided against disclosing the cause of Grichka's death, too. Described in The New York Times as . The much-anticipated New York Times article on the Bogdanov scandal has appeared. The first was on December 29 and the second on January 3. . A fine of 2,000 euros the court imposed was suspended, and only one euro of damages was awarded. Though people are convinced that they used implants, botox, and fillers to stretch their faces, the twins always claimed that's wasn't true. It is the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology which is located in Clear Water Bay, not Hong Kong University (HKU), whose main campus is located in the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong Island. [61], In 2008, Presses de la Renaissance[fr] published L'quation Bogdanov: le secret de l'origine de l'univers? [18], In 2001, the Czechoslovak Journal of Physics accepted an article written by Igor Bogdanov, entitled "Topological Origin of Inertia". [51], Alain Riazuelo, an astrophysicist at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, participated in many of the online discussions of the Bogdanovs' work. Though the family of her mother shuns her after engaging in an affair with an African-American musician. Igor, 72, has died in hospital reportedly from Covid jus Overbye wrote that Jackiw was intrigued by the thesis, although it contained many points he did not understand. "Nobody seems to be fooled", he added. [53], The Bogdanoff twins were both hospitalized, at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris,[54] in critical condition on 15 December 2021, after contracting COVID-19. I gor and Grichka Bogdanoff, the most eccentric twins made famous on French television, died six days apart of Covid, two years into the coronavirus pandemic.Grichka died first, on 28 December . [32][33], The CNRS report summarized the Bogdanoffs' theses thus: "Ces thses nont pas de valeur scientifique. [2] Both of the brothers received the lowest passing grade of "honorable", which is seldom given, as Daniel Sternheimer told The New York Times science reporter Dennis Overbye. Alas, it suffers from the usual journalistic conceit that a proper newspaper article must cover a "controversy". [45], Additionally, in the same addendum, a critical analysis of their work made by Urs Schreiber, and affirmed by the Bogdanovs as "very accurate", was included with the exception of the concluding remark "Just to make sure: I do not think that any of the above is valid reasoning", thus inverting the meaning from criticism into ostensible support. He died just six days after his brother Grichka Bogdanoff passed away in a . French twins Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff have both passed away from Covid complications. I'm a little surprised that anyone is surprised at this. [24], Not all review evaluations were positive. [28][50][51] The twins "went along with their meme fame", according to Business Insider, and said they predicted cryptocurrency in the 1980s on Temps X. "I say it solemnly, we have never used it," Grichka Bogdanoff said in an interview with Tl-Loisirs 2017. They had no connection to, or . Bogdanoff subsequently described this version as "dating from 1991 and too unfinished to be made public". Participants in the discussions were particularly unconvinced by a statement in the "Topological origin of inertia" paper that "whatever the orientation, the plane of oscillation of Foucault's pendulum is necessarily aligned with the initial singularity marking the origin of physical space." [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." There is, after all, a long-standing meme that the twins are able to control the market. 72, sadly passed away on Tuesday after a battle with Covid-19. 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. The referee's report concluded: "In my opinion the results of the paper can be considered as original ones. [47], The Bogdanoff twins, who denied having undergone plastic surgery,[48] became known for their prominent cheekbones and chins. Two French twin brothers who became the faces of a famed 1980s science TV programme before winning notoriety for their cosmetic surgery have died within a week of each other from Covid-19 after refusing the vaccination, friends and family said. [11] Both brothers received the lowest passing grade of "honorable". After that a first court decision in March 1994 awarded only 60kF+20KFto TXT for some technicalities. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [75], Media reports and comments from scientists, Pre- and post-publication official commentary on the journal articles, Disputes on French and English Wikipedias. They lived a similar life in everything. Knowledge pertaining the Bogdanoffs is known as the Bogpill, a term that is a nod to the Matrix's red/blue pill scene. One of the scientists who approved Igor Bogdanov's thesis, Roman Jackiw of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke to The New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye. [30] Moreover, a comment by physicist Peter Woit written as, "It's certainly possible that you have some new worthwhile results on quantum groups", was translated as "Il est tout fait certain que vous avez obtenu des rsultats nouveaux et utiles dans les groupes quantiques" ("It is completely certain that you have obtained new and useful results on quantum groups") and published by the Bogdanovs in the addendum of their book. Grichka Bogdanoff, who according to a popular crypto meme was - like his brother Igor - capable of changing the market with a single phone call, has died at the age of 72 following a period of illness. The funeral of French twin brothers, the faces of a famed 1980s science TV programme who later won notoriety for their cosmetic surgery, was held in Paris Monday after the pair died within a week . The paper was discussed extensively at the annual Editorial Board meeting and there was general agreement that it should not have been published. [34][35], On December 30, 2004, the Bogdanoffs sued Ciel et Espace for defamation over the publication of a critical article titled "The Mystification of the Bogdanoffs". 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 Bogdanov Affair: Liberty, Science and Justice, scientists claim their right of critique). [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". Igor and Grichka, 71, look unrecognisable nowadays - compared to when they first found fame on French television back in the 1970s. "[24] The New York Times reported that the physicists David Gross, Carlo Rovelli, and Lee Smolin considered the Bogdanoff papers nonsensical. Almost inevitably, this "balanced" approach sheds no light on the matter, and leaves the reader shaking his head, "There they go again"[32], Distler also suggested that the fact that the Bogdanovs had not uploaded their papers to the arXiv prior to publication, as was standard practice by that time, meant that the physics community must have paid vanishingly little attention to those papers before the hoax rumors broke. Overbye wrote that Jackiw was intrigued by the thesis, although it contained many points he did not understand. [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. As per the French newspaper Le Monde, Grichka died in Paris from COVID . And I want to know the answers to many questions that are opened in their paper. The statement read, in part, Regrettably, despite the best efforts, the refereeing process cannot be 100% effective. The Bogdanoff twins, however, always denied having any plastic surgery. On Tuesday, December 28, Grichka Bogdanoff, one of the two renowned Bogdanoff twins, passed away at the age of 72. [12] Soon after, Freidel denied writing any such remarks, telling the press that he had forwarded a message containing that text to a friend.[12]. Jackiw defended the thesis: All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. [] Rarely have we seen a hollow work dressed with such sophistication"). The twins, now aged in their 60s, were best known in the late 1970s as the classically handsome hosts of French science-fiction series Temps X ( Time X ). "[12][13] Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize that field's lax standards for discussing science. The papers were published in reputable scientific journals, and were alleged by their authors to culminate in a theory for describing what occurred before and at the Big Bang. This is surely an indictment of something, but its relevance to string theory is marginal at best.[65]. [3][8] Around the same time, Igor Bogdanov failed the defense of his thesis. La Dpche du Midi prsente ses condolances la famille (Youra Bogdanof)". 45. 1 min read. 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. . Rumors spread on Usenet newsgroups that their work was a deliberate hoax intended to target weaknesses in the peer review system that physics journals use to select papers for publication. He posted an unpublished version of Grichka Bogdanov's PhD thesis on his personal website, along with his critical analysis. Igor and Grichka Yourievitch Bogdanoff are French twin brothers who are TV presenters, producers, and scientific essayists. Alas, I was completely mistaken. Prior to the controversy, the reports on the Bogdanov theses and most of the journal referees' reports spoke favorably of their work, describing it as original and containing interesting ideas. YouTube videos featuring Bogdanoff Bitcoin memes have racked up millions of views. But before his tragic death, he and his brother Igor were well-known for their eccentric personalities . [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. Grichka Bogdanoff and Igor Bogdanoff (L-R) photographed in Paris, France in November 2019. Twin brothers who were once boyishly handsome TV stars in France have undergone so much plastic surgery that they're nearly unrecognizable. According to . 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