Popular science scholar and famous television host Igor Bogdanoff died on Monday at the age of 72, less than a week after his brother Grichka, both of two infections with Covid-19, according to relatives.
They were together, in the 80s, stars of the small screen in France for having launched the first science fiction program.
The family did not wish to communicate on the causes of the death of Igor Bogdanoff, which occurred Monday afternoon in a Parisian hospital.
Her twin brother Grichka died on December 28, after several days in hospital and in a coma. There too, the family did not wish to communicate on the causes of his death but relatives assured that he was not vaccinated and that he had died of Covid-19
Shortly after Igor's death, the lawyer for the two brothers, Me Edouard de Lamaze, confirmed on RTL radio that this new death was due to Covid. He, however, refused to confirm that Igor was not vaccinated, stating that he was "a lawyer, (...) not a doctor".
Luc Ferry, professor of philosophy and former French Minister of Education, friend of the two brothers, assured Le Parisien newspaper, the day after Grichka's death, that the Bogdanoffs were not vaccinated.
Igor Bogdanoff, father of six children born from several unions, had been hospitalized since mid-December, as was his brother.
Famous and controversial
Made famous in the 1980s by their sci-fi show "Temps X" on the TF1 channel, where they evolved in a spaceship setting with futuristic suits, Igor and Grichka had become the object of mockery for their faces deeply. transformed which they themselves qualified as "extraterrestrials".
Their scientific works have also sparked their share of controversy and earned them the wrath of a section of the scientific community who criticized the "low value" of their work.
They had been accused of plagiarism by American astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan for one of their best-known publications, "God and Science," interview with philosopher Jean Guitton (1991).
In 2010, the French weekly Marianne published extracts from a CNRS report according to which the theses and other articles of the two brothers had "no scientific value". In 2012, 170 scientists claimed their "right to blame" after the conviction of a CNRS researcher criticizing writings by the twins.
Marianne will be convicted of defamation in 2014, but soon after, the brothers will be dismissed in an action brought before the administrative tribunal of Paris against the CNRS.