Dear friends, philanthropists and patrons of science!
There are situations when honest people have no right to be silent.
Therefore, we once again make this official statement as independent scientists without any national tint or political.
The situation is such that over the past few months we have received messages from a number of well-known philanthropists with offers to receive rather large amounts of donations from them. We believe that any sane person is unlikely to protest against such proposals. However, we cannot sure to know that these contact persons who contact us do represent famous people really. Check it is quite difficult. Therefore, we are not in a hurry.
In the same period of time, we began to receive messages from major US banks that, allegedly, some accounts had already been made to our names in these banks (which we never did).
We can not know whether these events are connected, and who is behind this: representatives of the powerful persons, special services, or just fraudsters. However, in any case, these actions (setting up bank's accounts with “our names” without our knowledge and consent) are clearly illegal. This does not suit us for reasons of principle. Therefore, we make this statement (as well as several of our previous statements on this subject).
We are absolutely convinced that if some philanthropists really want to make a donation for us, they will find a way to do it in a form that suits us and without even the slightest violation of the law by anyone. This is the whole essence of charity as it seems to us.
We are grateful to all the current and future benefactors who would like to support us and our research, but so far we have not received a single penny from anyone.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya and Ph.D. Igor Bobin
There are situations when honest people have no right to be silent.
Therefore, we once again make this official statement as independent scientists without any national tint or political.
The situation is such that over the past few months we have received messages from a number of well-known philanthropists with offers to receive rather large amounts of donations from them. We believe that any sane person is unlikely to protest against such proposals. However, we cannot sure to know that these contact persons who contact us do represent famous people really. Check it is quite difficult. Therefore, we are not in a hurry.
In the same period of time, we began to receive messages from major US banks that, allegedly, some accounts had already been made to our names in these banks (which we never did).
We can not know whether these events are connected, and who is behind this: representatives of the powerful persons, special services, or just fraudsters. However, in any case, these actions (setting up bank's accounts with “our names” without our knowledge and consent) are clearly illegal. This does not suit us for reasons of principle. Therefore, we make this statement (as well as several of our previous statements on this subject).
We are absolutely convinced that if some philanthropists really want to make a donation for us, they will find a way to do it in a form that suits us and without even the slightest violation of the law by anyone. This is the whole essence of charity as it seems to us.
We are grateful to all the current and future benefactors who would like to support us and our research, but so far we have not received a single penny from anyone.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya and Ph.D. Igor Bobin
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