{"id":73812,"date":"2020-12-23T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T07:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/?p=73812"},"modified":"2021-10-04T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T07:30:08","slug":"hadron-therapy-fight-against-cancer-cells-not-genetic-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/en\/hadron-therapy-fight-against-cancer-cells-not-genetic-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadron Therapy \u2013 Fight against Cancer Cells, Not Genetic Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 17, 2020, Facebook account Lasha Modebadze, which apparently is a fake profile, published a post about Kutaisi International University funded by Bidzina Ivanishvili\u2019s Cartu Foundation. According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lasha.modebadze.982\/posts\/196824955503514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">post<\/a>, Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, is building not the university, but a high-technology research center in Kutaisi with the key goal to carry out experiments that are banned in Western countries on the population of Georgia and particularly, cancer patients. The author claims that Hadron Therapy Center established at Kutaisi International University in collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will be one of such experiments. Modebadze links hadron therapy to the Chinese experiments on genetic modification, which, as he claims, are financed by the world\u2019s richest technology companies, Bill Gates and the Rockefellers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lasha Modebadze\u2019s post involves a link to the article published by Italian-language website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gospanews.net\/2019\/02\/06\/transumanesimo-le-figlie-di-frankenstein-sono-tra-noi\/?fbclid=IwAR1Swm55M__DIUzYYkp7FxdV44Lthqslgoz0lCfqfsktqQDSWoO070IrwJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gospanews.ne<\/a>t on February 6, 2019. The article is about the first gene-edited twin sisters born as a result of the Chinese experiment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E183A4E183AFE183A7E183AF.png\" alt=\";\" width=\"302\" height=\"509\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"bcf30feb-b2c8-4369-bc24-f6ffbff19da0\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The claims about Kutaisi International University and CERN are conspiracy theories. The information about the collaboration of these organizations, as well as the research conducted by the CERN Laboratory and hadron therapy is available through open sources. Furthermore, the allegation that Kutaisi International University will be used for conducting secret experiments lacks evidence. The Italian-language article about genetic engineering accompanying Modebadze\u2019s post is irrelevant, because the research centers mentioned in the post are involved in physics research, not genetic engineering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li role=\"presentation\"><strong>About Kutaisi International University<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiu.edu.ge\/eng\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kutaisi International University<\/a>\u00a0(KIU) and its research center was held by then Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in 2016. KIU\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/netgazeti.ge\/news\/140557\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opened<\/a>\u00a0its doors to the first cohort of students in October 2020. It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotavisupleba.ge\/a\/%E1%83%A5%E1%83%A3%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1-%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%A8%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D-%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98-%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A9%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%93%E1%83%94-10-%E1%83%93%E1%83%A6%E1%83%98%E1%83%97-%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94-%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%AE%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90\/30905482.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0students into three English-language BA degree programs. Presently, 246 Georgian students are studying at the university. KIU will announce admission of foreign students immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. KIU collaborates with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tum.de\/en\/about-tum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Technical University of Munich<\/a>\u00a0(TUM). The operational model of the university has just been developed in partnership with TUM. The Honorary President of Kutaisi International University is Prof.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.professoren.tum.de\/en\/herrmann-wolfgang-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann,<\/a>\u00a0former President of TUM.<\/p>\n<p>KIU\u2019s strategic development\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiu.edu.ge\/eng\/research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">plan<\/a>\u00a0envisions establishment of a high-technology Hadron Therapy Center. This research center will offer its facilities for the scientific research in particle physics, radiation physics and biophysics, as well as support operations of the Proton Therapy Center, coupled with the Faculty of Medicine at KIU. The university collaborates with CERN, as well as other international technology and research centers just within the framework of this project.<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li role=\"presentation\"><strong>About the European Organization for Nuclear Research<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>News about the collaboration between Kutaisi International University and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CERN<\/a>) first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mes.gov.ge\/content.php?id=5991&amp;lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">emerged<\/a>\u00a0in 2015. Several research centers, including a cancer therapy center will be established at KIU. It was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gov.ge\/index.php?lang_id=-&amp;sec_id=406&amp;info_id=51854&amp;fbclid=IwAR3CQga-r1Jffioj-8Rmu4ZTRkuX_Xxd-3-d7mD_JnHOHYhjnuekjgvWMPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in 2015 that the Georgian government and the Cartu Foundation partnered with CERN, Italian Hadron Therapy Center and Italy\u2019s National Institute for Nuclear Physics on the Hadron Therapy Center project.<\/p>\n<p>The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was created in 1954 under the aegis of UNESCO. CERN is a joint\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/about\/who-we-are\/our-governance\/member-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">project of 23 member states<\/a>; it, however, also collaborates with non-member states, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/agenda.ge\/en\/news\/2020\/3098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Georgia<\/a>, under relevant cooperation agreements. Over 600 institutes and universities around the world use CERN\u2019s facilities. CERN\u2019s high technology laboratory located in Geneva is known for its large-scale research activities in the field of modern physics. CERN\u2019s experiments mostly involve particle physics and are concentrated on the Large\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/large-hadron-collider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hadron Collider<\/a>\u00a0(LHC), the world\u2019s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Transhumanism and genetic engineering linked by Modebadze to CERN and Kutaisi International University are not included in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/experiments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">list of experiments<\/a>\u00a0carried out by the CERN Laboratory,\u00a0<strong>because the latter is involved in physics research, not biology and genetic engineering<\/strong>. It is noteworthy that some technologies created by CERN are also used in medicine.<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li role=\"presentation\"><strong>What is hadron therapy?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lasha Modebadze claims that the real purpose of establishing the Hadron Therapy Center at Kutaisi International University is to carry out experiments, including those on human genetic modification, that are banned in Western countries, on the population of Georgia, particularly, cancer patients. In fact,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enlight.web.cern.ch\/what-is-hadron-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hadron therapy<\/a>\u00a0is part of particle and radiation physics and\u00a0<strong>it has nothing to do with bioengineering or transhumanism<\/strong>. Hadron therapy for cancer treatment is the latest therapeutic method based on modern physics research, which is actively used in medicine. In conventional radiation therapy, beams of X rays (high energy photons) are produced by accelerated electrons and then delivered to the patient to destroy tumor cells. Using crossing beams from many angles, radiation oncologists irradiate the tumor target while trying to spare the surrounding normal tissues.<\/p>\n<p>Physicist Gia Dvali and Dr. Temur Lomtadze are currently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/liberali.ge\/news\/view\/14646\/gia-dvali-adronuli-terapia-kibos-ujredebs-jansaghi-ujredebis-dauzianeblad-anadgurebs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">involved<\/a>\u00a0in the project.<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li role=\"presentation\"><strong>Chinese experiment on human genetic modification has nothing to do either with Kutaisi International University or large technology companies listed by Modebadze.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lasha Modebadze claims that large pharmaceutical companies will carry out banned experiments at Kutaisi International University and Hadron Therapy Center, like it allegedly happened during the experiment carried out in China in 2019 with the financial support of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation. Modebadze also claims that the purpose of such experiments is to create genetically modified humans from people of different professions.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, on November 26, 2018, Chinese scientist, He Jiankui from the Southern University of Science and Technology announced about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/26\/670991254\/chinese-scientist-says-hes-created-first-genetically-modified-babies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">editing<\/a>\u00a0DNA in human embryos. However, the purpose of gene editing was to strengthen the twin girls\u2019 immune system and protect them from HIV, rather than determine their future and control them. Later the Chinese scientist was arrested on charges of violating ethnical norms in the process of experiments; he was found guilty of conducting \u201cillegal medical practices\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/12\/chinese-scientist-who-produced-genetically-altered-babies-sentenced-3-years-jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sentenced<\/a>\u00a0to three years in prison. According to the court judgment,<strong>\u00a0human gene-editing experiments contradict ethical standards in medical research.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to prove that the experiment was financed by large companies or businessmen listed by Modebadze. Linking this experiment to the CERN experiments or future experiments of Kutaisi International University is a conspiracy theory, because the Kutaisi research center like CERN will be involved in scientific research in particle and radiation physics, not genetic engineering.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Spread<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lasha Modebadze published the post at 21:03, December 17. Since then until 00:10, December 18,\u00a0<strong>13 public posts were published<\/strong>\u00a0on his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/myth\/facebook.com\/lasha.modebadze.982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">page<\/a>\u00a0about Kutaisi International University. Two of them were identical to the above post, while others involved the links of news stories about Kutaisi International University published by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, as well as various media outlets. All posts had identical captions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E18394E183A0E18392E183B0_0.png\" alt=\";\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"35874edc-a9c3-4ef4-88f9-7802436e0b05\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E183A4E183AFE183A4.png\" alt=\";\" width=\"352\" height=\"249\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"8f7001bc-0bd2-42d6-aa23-67d83248a6d3\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E183A2E183A0E18393E183B0E18393.png\" alt=\";\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9819b891-56b6-4a80-9b11-9e608e5787cb\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E183A2E183A7_1.png\" alt=\";\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"05d0ba79-0c7c-4f2a-af3b-a24a4aa1fa17\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E18398E1839A_0.png\" alt=\";\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"bb531dfd-9133-46e5-882c-7beeaf9539e1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of 11:00, December 23, Lasha Modebadze\u2019s December 17 post has 52 shares. Facebook account\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kote.afxazi.54\/posts\/215786616719368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kote Afxazi<\/a>\u00a0marked by Who is Who platform as a fake account shared the post three times within 20 minutes after publication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kote.afxazi.54\/posts\/215786616719368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kote Afxazi<\/a>, apparently Lasha Modebadze also is a fake profile, previously serving as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/myth\/troll-disseminates-conspiracy-about-rockefeller-foundations-2010-document-and-lugar-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admin<\/a>\u00a0of Facebook group \u10d9\u10dd\u10e0\u10dd\u10dc\u10d0 \u10db\u10d0\u10e4\u10d8\u10d0 (Corona Mafia). The account was removed from Facebook several times, but was created again. Presently, Lasha Modebadze administers a group \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/778357866336633\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u10d9\u10dd\u10e0\u10dd\u10dc\u10d0\u10db\u10d0\u10e4\u10d8\u10d0 \u10d3\u10d0 \u10e1\u10d0\u10e5\u10d0\u10e0\u10d7\u10d5\u10d4\u10da\u10dd \u10e0\u10dd\u10d2\u10dd\u10e0\u10ea \u10e1\u10d0\u10d4\u10e5\u10e1\u10de\u10d4\u10e0\u10d8\u10db\u10d4\u10dc\u10e2\u10dd \u10e5\u10d5\u10d4\u10e7\u10d0\u10dc\u10d0<\/a>\u201d\u00a0(Corona mafia and Georgia as an experimental country).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/E183A0E183A4E183A7E183AF_0.png\" alt=\";\" width=\"331\" height=\"380\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"16acb861-05d1-4414-ba5b-957b25678f4a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lasha Modebadze uses his profile and the groups created by him to spread mainly Russian-language conspiracy theories and disinformation against the coronavirus and the Lugar Lab.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/myth\/troll-and-kremlin-affiliated-journalist-manipulatively-spread-documents-leaked-lugar-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myth Detector<\/a>\u00a0wrote earlier that like Kremlin-affiliated Bulgarian journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/en\/profile\/gaytandzhieva-dilyana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dilyana Gaytandzhieva<\/a>, Modebadze manipulatively spread the documents leaked from the Lugar Lab following the cyberattack against it.<\/p>\n<p>Below are Myth Detector\u2019s articles about various conspiracy theories spread by Lasha Modebadze:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/myth\/troll-disseminates-conspiracy-about-rockefeller-foundations-2010-document-and-lugar-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troll disseminates conspiracy about Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s<\/a>\u00a02010 document and Lugar Lab<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/myth\/troll-and-kremlin-affiliated-journalist-manipulatively-spread-documents-leaked-lugar-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Troll and Kremlin-affiliated Journalist Manipulatively<\/a>\u00a0Spread Documents Leaked from Lugar Lab<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/node\/3492\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0414\u044f\u0434\u044f \u0412\u0430\u0441\u044f and Other Trolls Spread<\/a>\u00a0Conspiracy Theory about FELTP<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mythdetector.ge\/en\/myth\/conspiracy-theories-about-zika-virus-linked-rockefellers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conspiracy Theories about Zika Virus<\/a>\u00a0Linked to the Rockefellers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The article has been written in the framework of Facebook\u2019s fact-checking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/business\/help\/2593586717571940?id=673052479947730&amp;helpref=faq_content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">program<\/a>. 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According to the\u00a0post, Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, is building not the university, but a high-technology research center in Kutaisi with the key goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19283,20913,21277],"country":[23855],"violation":[14399],"topic":[14395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73812"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=73812"},{"taxonomy":"violation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/violation?post=73812"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=73812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}