In Telegram Channel, the journalist responded to the words of Elena: "What a tin. Malyshev in itself at all? ". The chief children's psychiatrist Anna Portnova also joined the outrageous public, which indicated that in modern medicine use other terminology, and not outdated concepts of "idiot" and "cretin". "There are no words" idiocy "in the international classification of disease. "Certinism" is in the section of endocrinology, but they also do not use it, they do not say "cretin", there is no such designation, "explained Portnov in an interview with the radio station" says Moscow. "
However, many other psychiatrists have encouraged Malyshev, explaining that the aforementioned terms are scientific, and therefore condemn the lead nothing for what. "Certainly, these terms are medical. Mental retardation can be expressed in the form of oligophrenia, imbecylness and idiotia, so the terms of the idiot, imbecil or oligophrenia are quite scientific, "Vyacheslav Tarasov explained his position. He also noted that, unfortunately, people use scientific terms in colloquial speech and offensive purposes, and there are no guilt of doctors in this.