On Monday, December 22, Professor Alexander Leonidovich Dvorkin was invited to take part in the filming of the "Short Circuit" television talk show, which is to be broadcast on RTR January 15, 2004 at 11:50 a.m. The professor's opponent in the studio was Alan Chumak, who was quite well-known in the early 1990s when he had nearly half the population of the country in front of their television sets.
People would place containers of cream and water in front of the television screens waiting for them to be "charged" with his healing "energy". Sometimes Mr. Chumak "charged" entire newspapers with his energy and assure everyone who bought a newspaper with his photo would be healed of any disease.
At the beginning of the program Mr. Chumak proclaimed that his "energy" was registered by scientific machines and thus it is a proven phenomenon, even copyrighted by him. In the course of the discussion in the studio, however, professor Dvorkin managed to cogently demonstrate the complete groundlessness of Mr. Chumak's charlatanical claims, in a manner so as to serve as an effective counter-advertisement for further incidences of his "extrasense".
It was obvious that Chumak realized this himself, because when the cameras were cut off and the participants stood to leave the studio, he fell upon Professor Dvorkin with clenched fists and tried to strike him in the face. The professor avoided the blow, stood off at a safe distance and asked the furious "healer" why he did not try using "extrasensory methods" for an effective strike. Did he not claim just minutes before that he could do everything he wanted with his phenomenal energy, including influencing the bodily functions of every living creature?
"Those methods don't work on s like you! You need to be physically eliminated!" came the answer. This was clear evidence that Chumak himself does not at all believe in his methods or in the effectiveness of his "energy", with which he "charges" various liquids, but instead considers his actions no more than a profitable business, founded on making fools of unsuspecting people.