RazvesistayaKlukva
RazvesistayaKlukva (Развесистая клюква) means a laughably wrong and ignorant description of something, usually a foreign country or culture.
RazvesistayaKlukva is an idiomatic label for any absurd, ignorant, and physically impossible descriptions that are presented with a pretense of plausibility.
The term is widely used in Russian culture to mock:
wildly inaccurate clichés about Russia;
exoticized nonsense invented by foreigners;
any depiction that demonstrates **complete unfamiliarity with the subject**.
In TORI, the term is generalized.
It denotes any internally contradictory, physically impossible, or logically inconsistent description -
especially when it pretends to be a scientific discourse or factual reporting.
The excuse for such an extension comes from observation of such a phenomenon in publications [1] and absence of English term to denote this phenomenon.
One of goals of TORI axioms is handling of such cases; so, the appropriate term is necessary to denote the phenomenon.
Semantic
Initially, term RazvesistayaKlukva refers to apparently wrong description of things related to the Russian culture.
However, the same term can be applied also to any branch of any culture.
Common (cultural) meaning
Razvesistaya klyukva may refer to:
a laughably wrong stereotype;
a nonsensical description of a foreign culture;
an exotic fantasy presented as “reality”.
Typical examples include nineteenth-century travelogues describing Russia as a land of *bears walking on the streets*, *balalaikas everywhere*, and *frozen aristocrats drinking vodka from samovars*.
Technical (TORI) meaning
In TORI terminology, RazvesistayaKlukva is:
A text, concept, or “theory” that contains
A. internal contradictions, violations of basic physics, or
B. statements that cannot simultaneously be true, especially when written in a confident or authoritative tone.
Under the TORI definition:
not all fiction is RazvesistayaKlukva.
only fiction or “theories” that contradict themselves or known science while pretending to be realistic.
The examples include:
pseudo-scientific claims,
propaganda clichés,
sci-fi scenes violating basic physics without acknowledgment,
technical descriptions that cannot possibly work.
Etymology
RazvesistayaKlukva appears as transliteration of the Russian term Развесистая клюква).
The Russian word *клюква* (“cranberry”) refers to the small low-lying plant (3–8 cm) growing on bogs. It has red acid berries.
The adjective *развесистая* (“branchy, spreading like a tree”) describes a **large tree with wide branches**.
The combination is an oxymoron: a cranberry bush **cannot** be “branchy” or “tree-like”.
Thus the idiom itself is a model of what it describes: a **self-contradictory image that signals ignorance**.
No appropriate English equivalent is found to be used in the meaning specified here. So, the transliteration of the Russian term is used.
RazvesistayaKlukva as a phenomenon may refer to any culture at any epoch any continent and in any branch of the Human knowledge.
The closest analogies are «fake» (see «How to Write a Fake») and «fraud».
Not all fakes and not all frauds can be qualified as RazvesistayaKlukva, but only those that have some explicit internal contradiction, that is easy to reveal having the basic knowledge on the related topic(s).
Scientific and Technical Examples
1. “Star Wars physics”
3. Gravitsapa [5][6]
4. Petricgate (Петрикгейт, «Чистая вода») [7]
5. Квантовый структурный преобразователь [8]
Withe spreading of internet, it becomes easier to reveal the non-scientific concepts and qualify them with term «RazvesistayaKlukva». Usually, these concepts are formulated using tools described in manual «How to Write a Fake» («Как писать фейки»). Each case of RazvesistayaKlukva may combine several fakes on the same topic.
General tools of construction of motivated reasoning in favor of the RazvesistayaKlukva are described in article «Female logic» («Заметки о женской логике»).
However, the same tools help to reveal cases of RazvesistayaKlukva.
Several examples of apparently-wrong concepts are mentioned in article Place_of_science_in_the_human_knowledge [9].
In the many cases, a simple Gedankenexperiment[10] may reveal that the publication is just wrong; then, the concept can be qualified as RazvesistayaKlukva.
Warning
Ability of writers of fakes to promote various kinds of RazvesistayaKlukva greatly exceed the abilities of Editor to comment them.
In order not to drill the multiple pseudo-scientific publications, the TOPI axioms are suggested.
In TORI, in wide sense of the term, any concept that pretends to be scientific but does not satisfy the TOPI axioms can be qualified as RazvesistayaKlujva.
In such a way, Editor load the burden of justification of a scientific concept to its authors and its promoters.
Term RazvesistayaLKlukva refers to the the way a concept is presented, not whether it is correct or incorrect.
The Cranberry tree («Клюквенное дерево») may be described in a sci-fi or even in a scientific report,
if it is noted, how the new biologic specie is found/created, what are evidences of its existence,
why it needs a new name and why the new term Cranberry tree is suggested.
Even a correct, useful scientific concept can be presented as a RazvesistayaKlukva, following recipes «How to Write a Fake».
Even a correctly presented and described scientific concept, even a Scientific fact may happen to be wrong.
Editor does not hope to stop the spreading of various kinds of RazvesistayaKlukva
with this article.
In century 21, most of people can support any kind of RazvesistayaKlukva for several thousand dollars;
an example is shown in movie Alternative Math [11].
RazvesistayaKlukva appears as a strong weapon that may destroy not only a counrty [12][13][14],
but the Human civilization.
Editor hopes that there exist some mechanisms of history that collapse any empire
that use some RazvesistayaKlukva as a base of the official ideology; and such a collapse saves the rest of the humanity.
In any way, Editor keep his right
to call things with their proper names,
to give definitions for euphemisms and other doubtful but usual terms,
to suggest new notations for phenomena that are usual but have not yet a commonly accepted established name,
to construct historic models and to compare their predictions to a posteriori observations.
References
- ↑ https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperabs?paperid=36560 Dmitrii Kouznetsov. TORI Axioms and the Application in Physics. Journal of Modern Physics, Vol. 4 No. 9, 2013, pp. 1159-1164. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2013.49155.
- ↑ https://www.novis-torsion.com/2020/04/16/1472/ Torsion fields and their interference suppression. .. Prof. Dr. Anatolii Pavlenko is Professor at the International University of Human Development in Kiev. ..
- ↑ https://www.tidsporten.no/users/tidsporten_mystore_no/Image/Pyramid_Research.pdf Harnessing torsion fields. (2025)
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_field_(pseudoscience) A torsion field (also called axion field, spin field, spinor field, and microlepton field) is a reoccurring feature of many pseudoscientific[2] proposals. It posits that the quantum spin of particles can be used to cause emanations to carry information through vacuum orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light. // he first torsion field proposals were proposed in the late Soviet Union by a group of physicists in the 1980s who loosely based their ideas on Einstein–Cartan theory and some variant solutions of Maxwell's equations that do not have a solid grounding in scientific fact.[3] The group, led by Anatoly Akimov and Gennady Shipov,[4] began the research as the state-sponsored Center for Nontraditional Technologies. They disbanded in 1991 when their research was exposed by physicist Eugene Alexandrov as a fraud and an embezzlement of government funding.[citation needed] Akimov and Shipov received financing for torsion field research from the Russian Ministry of Science from 1992 to 1995 and from the Russian Ministry of Defense from 1996 to 1997, and secretly continued their research,[3] with a private enterprise called The International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (later called UVITOR).[5] ..
- ↑ http://www.newsland.ru/News/Detail/id/357154/cat/69/ Российские ученые провели испытания вечного двигателя. 13.04.2009. Российские специалисты из Научно-исследовательского института космических систем (филиала Государственного космического научно-производственного центра (ГКНПЦ) им. Хруничева) провели в космосе испытания "вечного двигателя".// Об этом сообщил сегодня заместитель генерального директора ГКНПЦ, директор НИИ КС Валерий Меньшиков. Движитель без выброса реактивной массы, с легкой руки журналистов названный "вечным двигателем", был установлен на спутнике "Юбилейный", который в мае 2008 года был выведен на орбиту в качестве попутной нагрузки на ракете-носителе "Рокот".// С помощью движителя, который включается автономно или по команде с Земли, космический аппарат должен переходить с одной орбиты на другую. Перемещение происходит за счет движения внутри аппарата жидкого или твердого рабочего тела по определенной траектории, напоминающей воронку торнадо. Для питания используется энергия солнечных батарей. Образец такого двигателя прошел испытания на Земле и получил поддержку в Роскосмосе, передает ИТАР-ТАСС.
- ↑ https://english.pravda.ru/science/107399-russian_scientists/ ALEX NAUMOV 14.04.2009 04:32 Russian scientists test perpetual motion machine in space // SCIENCE » TECHNOLOGIES AND DISCOVERIES // Specialists of the Institute for Space Systems conducted successful tests of the perpetual motion machine in space. Valery Menshikov, the director of the institute, said that the machine was installed at Yubileiny satellite which was launched into orbit almost a year ago. The satellite can now move from one orbit to another with the help of the engine, which discharges no reaction mass.
- ↑ https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Петрикгейт «Петрикгейт» — лоббистский и научный скандал, возникший в 2009 году вокруг разработок Виктора Петрика. При поддержке председателя Госдумы и одновременно главы Высшего совета партии «Единая Россия» Бориса Грызлова Виктор Петрик лоббировал установку своих фильтров для очистки воды в государственных и муниципальных учреждениях по всей России. На эту установку, проходившую с 2006 года в рамках партийной, но финансируемой за счёт бюджетных средств, программы «Единой России» «Чистая вода», было запланировано потратить до 2020 года около 15 триллионов рублей. ..
- ↑ https://pravo.ru/news/227904/ Практика 1 декабря 2020 // Изобретателя оправдали по делу о мошенничестве с «вечным двигателем» // Он заключил с оператором теплосетей Мурома договор, по которому предприятие должно платить за использование запатентованного устройства, даже если оно ничего не делает. // Муромский городской суд оправдал Евгения Мурышева по делу о мошенничестве в особо крупном размере (ч. 4 ст. 159 УК), сообщили на сайте Владимирского областного суда. В действиях изобретателя, который продал свой запатентованный «квантовый структурный преобразователь» (КСП) муромским властям, не нашли состава преступления. .. Мурышев запатентовал КСП в 2003 году. В патенте принцип его действия не раскрыт. Как было указано на сайте его ныне ликвидированной компании «Русский двигатель», устройство способно снизить расход энергии на нагрев теплоносителя в системах отопления на 30% и более. В 2009 году издание «Трибуна ВПК» сообщало, что изобретение «позволяет изменить структуру воды» и позволяет за сезон сэкономить до 1/7 расхода газа на котельную. // В 2007 году изобретатель заключил с МУП «Тепловые сети» города Мурома договор на 17 лет. По его условиям Мурышев получил 3 млн руб. единовременно за установку КСП в систему теплоснабжения. Предприятие должно было также выплачивать ему 50% от суммы, которую прибор якобы позволял сэкономить в год (вплоть до 2023 года). При этом условие о выплатах продолжало действовать, даже если КСП не был подключён к теплосети. // В 2011 году «Тепловые сети» действительно демонтировали прибор, потому что пришли к выводу, что он не даёт никакой экономии. Они также попытались прекратить выплаты Мурышеву, но не смогли оспорить условия договора в суде. // В 2018 году ситуацией заинтересовался отдел по расследованию особо важных дел СУ СК по Владимирской области. Он пришёл к выводу, что Мурышев представил заведомо некорректную систему расчета экономии, чтобы продемонстрировать эффект своего изобретения, а руководство «Тепловых сетей» поверило ему из-за недостаточных знаний в области физики. Ущерб от действий изобретателя следствие оценило в 112 млн руб. // Комиссия по борьбе с лженаукой при РАН по запросу следственных органов провела экспертизу КСП и сочла, что прибор представляет собой «вечный двигатель», предполагаемый принцип действия которого не согласуется с основными законами физики.
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228921211_Place_of_science_in_the_human_knowledge D.Kouznetsov. Place of Science in the Human Knowledge. New Insights into Physical Science, 2020/BP/413. Book Publisher International, 2020, volume 6, Chapter 8, p.136-161.
- ↑ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedankenexperiment Ein Gedankenexperiment (auch Gedankenversuch) ist ein Hilfsmittel, um eine bestimmte Theorie zu untermauern, zu widerlegen, zu veranschaulichen oder weiterzudenken.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw Alternative Math | Short Film // Ideaman Sep 19, 2017 // A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfgHZdZuVI Почему Америка должна спасать СЕБЯ Mark Solonin Jul 23, 2024
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYbhlHltRw Америка собралась самоубиться? Беседа с профессором Знаменским. Mark Solonin. Aug 21, 2024.
- ↑ https://theconversation.com/why-annexing-canada-would-destroy-the-united-states-249561 Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States Published: February 11, 2025 5.07pm GMT As United States President Donald Trump relentlessly threatens to annex Canada, some Canadians are worried that an American invasion could one day become a reality. // How would that scenario play out? Looking at the sheer size of the American military, many people might believe that Trump would enjoy an easy victory. // That analysis is wrong. If Trump ever decides to use military force to annex Canada, the result would not be determined by a conventional military confrontation between the Canadian and American armies. Rather, a military invasion of Canada would trigger a decades-long violent resistance, which would ultimately destroy the United States.
1935.08.21. https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax' The Great Moon Hoax. Throughout the final week of August 1835, a long article appeared in serial form on the front page of the New York Sun. .. The moon hoax began on Friday, 21 August 1835, when a small, teaser notice appeared on the second page of the Sun. .. He had discovered life on the moon. ..
2010.oo.oo. http://www.astrozet.net/Efremov%20Andromeda.pdf Ivan Yefremov, Andromeda// A space-age tale// Translated from Russian by George Hanna. (no later than year 2010) .. Tantra was in danger! The gravitation was double the computed figure! The astronavigator turned pale. The unexpected bad happened and an immediate decision was essential. The fate of the spaceship was in his hands. The steadily increasing gravitational pull made a reduction in speed necessary, both because of increasing weight in the ship and an apparent accumulation of solid matter in the ship's path. But after reducing speed what would they use for further acceleration? Pel Lynn clenched his teeth and turned the lever that started the ion trigger motors used for braking. Gong-like sounds disturbed the melody of the measuring instruments and drowned the alarming ring of those recording the ratio of gravitational pull to velocity. The ringing ceased and the indicators showed that speed had been reduce ..
Keywords
«Alternative math», «Female logic», «Fraud», «How to Write a Fake», «Propaganda», «RazvesistayaKlukva», «Rule of Newspeak», «Scientific concept», «TORI axioms», «TORI axioms and the application in physics», «Transfer of hostilities to aggressor territory»,
«А нас то за что», «Аксиомы ТОРИ», «Как писать фейки», «Развесистая клюква»,