Viktor Petrik

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Viktor Ivanovich Petrik (Russian: Виктор Иванович Петрик; born 1946) is a Russian businessman. He claims to have made many scientific breakthroughs that he markets through his company, Goldformula. Mainstream scientists dismiss his inventions as pseudoscience.^[1] Petrik gained notoriety in Russia during the scandal, dubbed Petrikgate, related to the involvement of politicians in promotion of Petrik's pseudo inventions.^[2][3]