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France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart

by GEBBL on 1/4/22, 2:08 PM with 85 comments

• by lsalvatore on 1/4/22, 2:23 PM

  can I get a quick rundown of these guys?

• by boringg on 1/4/22, 2:40 PM

  Does anyone know if they were liked by the public? I doubt they were much loved in the scientific community based on what I read in the wikipedia entry. Their history seems patchy per wikipedia.

  Also I am trying to understand their relevance / importance in the grand scheme. Why is this getting traction?

• by lr1970 on 1/4/22, 8:16 PM

  I think that Bogdanoff twins invented a time-machine, traveled to 2021 and used GPT-3 to generate their Ph.D. theses with correct Quantum Field Theory jargon but nonsensical otherwise :-) </joke attempt>

• by reacweb on 1/4/22, 3:19 PM

  I am French, I was interested in the brothers when there was the controversy. Their "phd" was a translation error in their bio. To silence the controversy, they decided to actually pass a phd. Neither brother claimed to be a genius, but while they have many other activities, they passed their phd with work similar to an average student. They deserve their phd.

  Their books are generally intended to popularize the scientific work of real researchers. They are well written. Their public appearances on TV are not without humor and self-mockery. They have deserved the sympathy of many french people.

• by pvaldes on 1/4/22, 7:04 PM

  Their faces had been butchered and begging for attention. Exactly the same that Jocelyn Wildenstein did to herself.

  I always think that there must be a component of drug addiction in people that undergoes so much extreme transformations, and still go back for more. Maybe Painkillers applied in those surgeries have something to do with that. Is a trap for rich people affected from personal insecurities

• by dmos62 on 1/4/22, 2:30 PM

  Perhaps notably, they died of the coronavirus and had not been vaccinated.

• by LatteLazy on 1/4/22, 4:02 PM

  At the risk of being flippant, is this any more than "Crazy people die of preventable disease"?

• by hamiltonians on 1/4/22, 3:23 PM

  dump it!!!

• by marcodiego on 1/4/22, 3:11 PM

  "Aged 72, the brothers had not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

  Their friends said they were convinced their healthy lifestyle would protect them and they were admitted to hospital in mid-December."

• by wombat-man on 1/4/22, 2:30 PM

  "Several friends told them to get themselves vaccinated but they felt because of their lifestyle and their [lack of] comorbidity, they weren't at risk of Covid."

  Imagine being over 70 thinking you aren't at risk.

  It's really a shame.

• by guerby on 1/4/22, 2:29 PM

  TL;DR version not antivax but choose not to vax because feeling healthy at 72.

  "die of Covid"

  "the brothers had not been vaccinated against Covid-19."

  "Their friends said they were convinced their healthy lifestyle would protect them"

  "Asked why they had chosen not to have the Covid vaccines if they were not themselves anti-vaxxers, Luc Ferry said on Monday: "Like Igor, Grichka wasn't antivax, he was just antivax for himself. "They were both athletic, with not an inch of fat, and they thought the vaccine was more dangerous than the virus.""

  https://www.lamontagne.fr/paris-75000/actualites/covid-19-qu...

  From 31 may to 14 november 2021 a total of 2854 unvaccinated people died of COVID19 in France and 2179 died while having at least one shot of vaccine.

  About 77% of the population has at least one shot in France.

• by ramesh31 on 1/4/22, 2:39 PM

  He bought?