The Bogdanoff brothers' theses qualified as hoaxes

The Bogdanoff affair refers to the international controversy born in October 2002 around the validity of the scientific theses of Igor and Grichka. Physicists Max Niedermaier and John Baez claimed that these works constituted hoaxes comparable to the Sokal affair, an accusation relayed by the New York Times. An internal CNRS report written in 2003 subsequently qualified all of their publications as nonsense and manifest confusion.