Vodovozov, Alexey Valerevich

He was born on October 8, 1970 in Astrakhan in the family of a military doctor .

In 1977-1979 he studied at school 7 of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in Brandenburg an der Havel , in 1980-1981 - No. 49 of Chita, in 1982-1983 - in No. 514 of St. Petersburg, in 1984-1985 - No. 950 Moscow, in 1985-1987 - No. 535 of Moscow.

In 1993, he graduated with honors from the faculty of training doctors for missile and ground forces (2nd faculty) of the Kirov Military Medical Academy and until 2001 served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation as a military doctor, having gone from doctor of a separate battalion to the head of the garrison clinic. He specialized in therapy, clinical toxicology , clinical laboratory diagnostics and military medical examination , social hygiene and public health ^{[1] [5]} .

He is the author of articles in the magazines Around the World , Health , Popular Mechanics , Russian Pharmacies , ABC and Esquire , and the Troitsky Variant - Science newspaper ^[1] .

Scientific editor of the joint editorial office of the publishing house Remedium ^{[1] [2]} , the popular educational magazine about medicine “ABC” ^[5] and the magazine “ Russian Pharmacies ” ^[8] . The chief editor of the site abc-gid.ru ^[5] . He was the editor-in-chief of the Lenta.ru section on medicine ^[9] .

In 2009, at the Russian News Service radio station, for a short time he was the author and presenter of the Clinic program, dedicated to the reliability of medical information ^[1] .

Member of the Club of Scientific Journalists ^[4] , member of the Expert Council of the Harry Houdini Award ^{[2] [3]} , member of the Association of Medical Journalists ^[2] , member of the Russian movement Brits ^[1] , member of the jury of the annual competition of the popular science project Biomolecula.ru - “Mol / bio / text” ^[1] .

Lives in Odintsovo . Married, has a son, daughter and granddaughter. Wife - Svetlana Aleksandrovna Vodovozova (born October 23, 1969), a biology teacher of the highest category in gymnasium No. 13 Odintsovo.

Worldview is an atheist .

He calls himself a "collector of medical quackery" ^[1] . In 2016 he published the book “The patient is reasonable. Traps of “medical” diagnostics that everyone should be aware of ”in which the author’s fifteen-year personal experience“ collecting, studying and analyzing pseudo-medical diagnostic techniques ”was summarized and systematized ^[1] .

One of the co-authors of the AntiBAD project (antibad.info). The presenter of the “Column of Evil Criticism”, which appeared on Medportal.ru, where he analyzed “myths, errors and frank quackery in the field of medicine, discovered on the Internet .” He continued to develop these topics in his blog, “The Lookout of the Medical Doctor,” along with ridiculing errors and misconceptions, trying to most clearly explain their essence and describe how everything really is ^[1] .

He constantly takes part in various popular science projects - lectures and festivals, including those aimed at children's audiences, television and radio programs ^[1] .

He was a speaker at the 1st and 2nd international conferences “Pseudoscience in the modern world: the media sphere, higher education, school”, held at St. Petersburg State University with the support of the Commission on the fight against pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences , where he addressed in the reports “Pseudo-diagnostic medical techniques in Runet” and “On the problem of errors in biology textbooks of the 8th grade of a comprehensive school” ^{[1] [8]} . He also participated as a speaker at the international conference “Pseudoscience in modern society: theoretical and methodological approaches and countermeasures” held at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov , where he made a presentation “Documentary film“ Charlatans “as an example of a successful joint educational the work of journalists and scientists ” ^[10] .

In March 2012, as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru project, he delivered a public lecture entitled Pseudo-Diagnostics: Don't Let Yourself Be Fooled ^[11] . In April 2016, together with M. S. Gelfand, he took part in a 2x Lecture Hall at Ulyanovsk State Technical University, where he delivered a lecture “Pseudo-treatment: in pursuit of healing” ^[2] .

In October 2016, he participated as a guest speaker in the scientific and educational forum " Scientists against Myths -2" organized by the scientific and educational portal " Anthropogenesis.ru ", where he made a presentation "Three myths of alternative medicine" ^[12] ; and also was a member of the jury of the anti- award “ Honorary Academician of VRAL ”. In January 2017, he spoke in the same capacity at a meeting of the scientific and educational forum “ Scientists Against Myths -3,” where he spoke about the myths about the dangers of vaccines and spoke about the threats that vaccine refusal entails, as well as about the main reasons for the anti-vaccination movement , noted the groundlessness of the claims of “anti-vaccinators”, expressing the opinion that if there were no vaccinations, then many of the people could not have been born ^{[13] [14] [15]} . In the summer of that year, at a meeting of the scientific forum “ Scientists Against Myths- 4,” he made a presentation on the methods (daily ingestion of several glasses of olive oil and lemon juice ) that ordinary people resort to in order to “cleanse” their body of " toxins ", and enterprising citizens to get money for the "cleansing process" (including "expelling parasites "), which pointed out that, in reality, a chemical reaction of these liquids with alkali , which leads to the formation of pieces we and mistaken for gallstones . Also in his speech, he noted that this procedure has a relatively safe outcome, unlike enemas with hot coffee , which causes burns leading to perforation of the rectum ^{[16] [17]} . In June 2018, at the Scientific and Educational Forum “ Scientists Against Myths- 7”, he made a presentation on common myths about vitamins ^[18] , and in February 2019, “ Scientists Against Myths- 9” touched upon myths about water ^[19] .

On October 6, 2018, he took part in the scientific and educational forum “Scientists Against Myths-8”, which was held at the NUST “MISiS” , acting as a member of the jury of the honorary academician VRAL .

• Silver prize of the "Clinic" competition (2009) for the "Inspection of the Military Doctor" blog ^{[1] [2]}
• Laureate of the contest “ Medicine in Runet ” (2010) in the nomination “Best Blog” ^{[1] [2]}
• Laureate of the scientific blog competition STRF.ru “ Friendlund Mobius ” (2012) in the nomination “Molecular Biology-Genetics-Medicine” ^{[1] [2]}
• Winner of the award “Russian Sci & Tech Writer of the Year” (2019) ^[7] .

Books

• Vodovozov A.V. The patient is reasonable. Traps of “medical” diagnostics, which everyone should know about . - M .: Eksmo , 2016 .-- 224 p. - (Smart patient). - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-84611-5 .
  • Reprinted under the title - “False Diagnosis. How Doctors Fool Patients and How to Avoid This? ”

Articles

• Paevsky A., Popov S. And the whole world is not enough // Trinity option - Science . 09/28/2010. No. 63. S. 1-2
• Varentsova A. Pseudo-diagnostics: how not to become a victim of a scammer from medicine // Gazeta.ru , 07.24.2016
• Alexey Vodovozov - Patient Intelligent program “Only Science” on the radio Cultural Evolution
• Poisoning and first aid broadcast “Clove Sea” on the radio Cultural Evolution

•   The official page of Alexey Valerievich Vodovozov on the VKontakte social network
• Vodovozov, Alexey Valerevich on the social network Facebook
•   - Alexey Valerievich Vodovozov in LiveJournal
•   Video channel of Alexey Valerievich Vodovozov on YouTube
  • Lectures by Alexey Vodovozov - replenished playlist on YouTube
• Vodovozov A.V. Three myths of alternative medicine (Transcript of a report delivered on October 2, 2016 at the forum Scientists Against Myths — 2) // Anthropogenesis.ru
• Scientists Against Myths 3-1. Alexey Vodovozov: Vaccination myths on YouTube - presentation at the Scientists Against Myths- 3 scientific and educational forum (organizer Antropogenesis.ru educational and educational portal)
• Alexey Vodovozov about medical quackery // Intelligence project, 02.02.2017