How anti-pseudoscience fighters helped the CIA destroy Soviet cybernetics

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

How “fighters against pseudoscience” love to tell various myths about how much they “saved” budget money from “useless” expenses on various kinds of “pseudoscientific” developments and technologies. several thousand different inventions and discoveries were "hacked", which were unfoundedly labeled "pseudoscience" only because they allegedly "violate the laws of physics."

They especially love one myth that the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was either spyang or in a “delirium tremens” boasted to Academician Aleksandrov that he had allocated 50 million rubles for the technology of “generating energy from stone”. Yes, it looks like it’s absurd, because with the word “stone”, for some reason, a kind of cobblestone from the pavement is immediately presented.

But knowing the tendency of many "fighters against pseudoscience" to lie and reverse phrases, bringing their meaning to the point of absurdity, we can say with confidence that in fact, if such studies existed in reality, they were called completely differently. But if they were financed quite officially, then there should have been an article on them. Nevertheless, none of the "fighters against pseudoscience" could (or did not want to) explain the actual name of the technologies that Boris Yeltsin allegedly mentioned.

But the use of B. Yeltsin himself as a "scientific authority" on such technology, to put it mildly, is not correct. He could understand what he was told anyway. only at its "presidential", but not scientific level. And the absence of any mention of specific authors of such technology by "fighters against pseudoscience" clearly indicates that this bike is from the category of anecdotes. Moreover, Boris Yeltsin can no longer refute it.

And now let's say that there really is no smoke without fire, and some such research could be funded, although this is not a proven fact, but only the speculations of some representatives of the pseudoscientific commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences. But let's replace the word "stone" with the word "crystal". And then the phrase "obtaining energy from a crystal" does not look so absurd and "pseudoscientific".

Crystals are known to have unique properties. They are able to grow as living beings and are capable of accumulating and storing information. This last quality is actively used in electronics. Well, if they are able to accumulate and store information, then why not assume that they are able to accumulate and store energy. For example, solar. After all, solar panels are capable of this? First, they are charged with the energy of the Sun, and then this energy is converted into electrical energy. Moreover, no "physical conservation laws" are violated. So why can't you do the same with crystals?

Yes, we do not know what was the essence of the technology that B. Yeltsin allegedly mentioned. But we do not know whether these projects of "getting energy from stone" actually existed. After all, the "fighters against pseudoscience" have not provided any concrete evidence of their presence. But let us assume that they are right, and the 50 million rubles allocated by Boris Yeltsin for these studies were really wasted. But has anyone ever tried to calculate the damage from the activities of the "fighters against pseudoscience" themselves? For example, at least the real economic damage from the defeat back in Soviet times of genetics and cybernetics?

But the country has really lost its priority in these industries, lagging behind its closest competitors for decades. The economic damage, not even counting the country's prestige, was enormous. And who actually benefits from it? Obviously not for our country and not for our people, but for those countries whose developments we are still forced to use to the detriment of our own national security and economic benefit.

Do you know who actually planned this entire action to destroy promising developments in the field of Soviet cybernetics and even the Soviet Internet? It turns out that all this was carefully planned and implemented with the help of our "fighters against pseudoscience" by the CIA plan. For example, what you can read about this in the book of the teacher of the Academy of Information Systems E. Larina "Multiplying grief. How to survive in the era of war of the elites":

“In the 1960s, the United States relied on telecommunications technology and computing to dominate the coming cyberspace. It is well known from history that whoever controls resources and trade routes dominates the world. The idea of the Americans was simple: taking control of information processing systems and a network of circulation of global information flows based on the achievements of American science and technology. The Scientific Council under the President of the United States instructed the Pentagon, ARPA, MITER Corporation and major universities to deal with what is today called the Internet.

It is much less known that two alternative projects were being developed in parallel. It would be fundamentally wrong to call them the Russian and British-Chilean Internet. These projects were based on fundamentally different approaches to the organization of information flows and calculations. To a large extent, they are not similar to the Internet of the past, but to the worldwide network of the future with a variety of networks, big data and cognitive computing.

In the late 1960s, the CIA began implementing the SRC program. In a loose translation into Russian, the program was called "Stop or break the red code". According to the memoirs of the outstanding Soviet cyberneticist V. Glushkov, the father of the OGAS project, the CIA published articles in the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers familiar to E. Snowden, entitled "Punch Card Controls the Kremlin" and "The Number Replaces Lenin."

Articles in newspapers were written by V. Zorza, who collaborated with MI6 for a long time, and then for a decade with the CIA. Using agents of influence, in 1972 Izvestia, signed by the leadership of the US Institute, published an article "Lessons from the Electronic Boom", where it was argued that the United States had abandoned the development of computers and electronic telecommunications. Around the same period, the CIA, according to the memoirs of V. Glushkov, organized a number of assassination attempts on him. The CIA acted in the same way in Chile against the author of the Cyberskin project, the famous British researcher JS Beer."

So, who did the action of our "fighters against pseudoscience" help to defend their interests, who branded cybernetics as "pseudoscience" and staged a real persecution of our cybernetics? It turns out that at least the "fighters against pseudoscience" turned out to be the "agents of influence" of the CIA. But was it really just the stupidity and narrow-mindedness of the "fighters against pseudoscience" who were unable to discern the "trick" of the US intelligence department? And although there really are such people in their ranks, this does not prevent them from making unfounded their "authoritative" verdicts on what is "science" and what is "pseudoscience."

Or maybe all this was malicious intent aimed at undermining the prestige and economic independence of the USSR? After all, the case with genetics and cybernetics could be declared an "accidental oversight" if it were the only one. But it turns out that none of this story has drawn any conclusions? Isn't it because.that no one bore any responsibility for deliberate or unconscious betrayal of the interests of their state and their people? But aren't the current attempts of "fighters against pseudoscience" to ban homeopathy and to impose GMOs that are dangerous to the health of the people on Russia are not all the same attempts to protect the interests of not their own state and people? Draw your own conclusion.