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on science news in its favor. For example, if there is a report about a British-American team, in the Russian version only British would be mentioned by nation, and of course, the title or the lede will most definitely say that British scientists did this or that. A similar opinion was expressed
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Krongauz writes that, as it goes with other internet memes, it is pointless to try to figure out why British, why not Japanese, nor American, not even English. The only thing is sure, he notes, that once the meme took off, it started to self-proliferate because journalists started putting slight
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released a series of reports from England titled "British Scientists Have Proven..." about real research projects that look weird or funny. Capitalizing on the meme, the channel suggests that the term is in fact similar to the concept of
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earlier. During the peak of popularity of the meme there were several websites (british.powernet.ru, british-science.ru, etc.) dedicated to the revelations of "British scientists".
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used as an ironic reference to absurd news reports about scientific discoveries: "British scientists managed to establish that..." It has also become a Russian
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defined the term as "a synonym for researchers working on pseudoscientific projects that are bonkers, idiotic and have absolutely no practical value".
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The British have a similar concept referring to trivial, useless research, "University of the Bleedin' Obvious", coined in 2009 by two editors of
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during a minipoll on what British scientists think about "British scientists" carried out in 2019 by the London-based Russophone
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Lurkmore writes that the meme started proliferating somewhere in 2003–2004 and attributes its spreading to a Pleshner, a user of
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Internet statistics seems to corroborate the approximate date of the emergence of the meme: before 2004 the terms "
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that there is a rationale under the meme, which lies in a trait of British character: positive attitude to
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remarks that all discoveries of "British scientists" reported by Pleshner have already been published in
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wrote: "When they hear the phrase 'British scientists', Russians don't tend to think of
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found out that people start lying as early as at 6 years old
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The crowdsourced Russian internet subculture encyclopedia
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