The chairman of the Forum for Combating Pseudoscience at BAS, Acad. Ivan Juhnovski, filed a report with the Bulgarian Drug Agency regarding the widespread sale in Bulgarian pharmacies of over 40 fake medicinal products manufactured by the Boiron homeopathic company. The report is supported by Academician Dr. Bogdan Petrunov, Corresponding Member Dr. Tsvetalina Tankova, Academician Christo Tsvetanov, Academician Ivan Zagorchev, Academician Ivan Ivanov, and Prof. Ivan Ivanov. Chemical tests on homeopathic sugar granules from the pharmacy network have established that the quantities of accompanying technological admixtures (inorganic salts and elements) contained in them are billions of times greater than the quantities of the same salts and elements indicated by the degree of dilution on the labels of homeopathic preparations with the same chemical formula. The [...]

  On December 11, Academician Ivan Juhnovski, Chairman of the Forum for Combating Pseudoscience at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, together with Corr. Memb. Dr. Tsvetalina Tankova, Acad. Ivan Ivanov, Acad. Ivan Zagorchev, and Prof. Ivan Ivanov submitted a report to Alexander Kolyachev, President of the Commission for Consumer Protection, regarding false, misleading, and deceptive advertising and descriptions of 46 homeopathic medicinal products currently on sale. The grounds and evidence for this report are detailed studies of the chemical composition of the homeopathic sugar granules in question which show that they contain billions of times more inorganic salts and elements than stated on the labels and in their descriptions, part of the nomenclature of the Boiron homeopathic company. Furthermore, they cannot be considered homeopathic medicinal [...]

  The President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, met with the Ambassador of Japan, H.E. Chikahisa Sumi, today at the Academy. Corr. Memb. Slavcheva opened the meeting with a presentation of BAS, introducing the guest to its history, structure, scientific institutes, and main areas of research activity. H.E. Chikahisa Sumi noted the traditionally good relations between Bulgarian and Japanese scientists and highlighted the successful joint work carried out through a number of scientific and cultural events organized in partnership with BAS. Corresponding Member Slavcheva paid special attention to the successful partnership between the Institute of Balkan Studies with the Prof. Alexander Fol Center for Thracology at BAS with the Faculty of Foreign Studies at Osaka University. She emphasized the potential for expanding this cooperation [...]