What are Mr Valev’s qualifications as a scientist?

This is one of life’s great mysteries. A literature search has
revealed no publications. I had thought that Mr Valev worked at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, but Petr Kuzmic has pointed out that he
is actually employed by the State Commission of Varieties, 125
Tzarigradsko Chaussee, Block 1, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria, and apparently
it is only his web connection that comes through the Academy.
Subsequently he described himself as the head (since 1994) of the
Technological Laboratory of this Commission, and described its work as
testing, approbation and control of seeds.

Puzzlement on this subject extends even to Bulgaria, as B. V. Toshev,
head of the Departments of Physical Chemistry and of Chemistry
Education at the University of Sofia, noted in a message to the
Chemistry Education Discussion List in April 2005, when he asked

Who is Pentcho Valev? What is his education? Nobody in Bulgaria knows
that. He does not belong either to the researchers or to the Bulgarian
education community. I even wonder if he is a real man?!

A small bit of light was shed by Mr Valev himself in January 2000 in a
message to the UK chemical education news group:

I am not an educator not even a scientist.

It just confirms what we had already deduced, of course, but it is
helpful to have it from an authoritative source.


Source - http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/valevfaq.htm