A year ago at the initiative of Project blog Watermelon held in the blogosphere the first World Day of skepticism and against pseudoscience advance . This date was chosen to commemorate the death of Carl Sagan , one of the main promoters of critical thinking. this year, but did not see a formal call for continuity, I will allow, though, as I said before, I am not a "skeptic" in the strict sense if such a thing exists, but merely a blogger that has devoted some entries to these issues, devoting to remember this because I believe it is important to speak out against these practices that are, at least from my point of view, a more serious matter than it seems.
Yes, many people think these are all free but they are nonsense, and, no doubt, which are not worth talking about, and still others argue that the victims of charlatans have, gullible, well deserved to be cheated. This is an opinion which I disagree because in many cases, if not all, this ignorance is due in part to the lack of critical information on pseudoscience, and the other to the abundant misinformation and publicity to the contrary: just turn on your television and get to see the bar that morning for an idea of \u200b\u200bhow things are. So it's no wonder that many people, after the bombing that receives through the media will finally convince or at least think something may be truth to ... well, whatever you want and send.
grace may cause us to see a person wearing the bracelet proud Power Balance or read a newspaper allegedly left the nonsense of a astrologer - tarotista - angelera , to name just a few nonsense seemingly harmless.
But when you see crashes the National Autonomous University of Mexico astrology conference, or the University of Colima other on Exopolitics , things begin to stop being silly and start to be concern (the National Polytechnic Institute and witchcraft school or speak, which is a basket case).
When Federal District boasts the imminent opening of an integrative medicine clinic where they provide care therapies have not proven to be better than the placebo effect, it is alarming. And what is more see Director of Faculty of Sciences UNAM that she should be respected for being ancient acupuncture, or Secretary of Health of the Government contends that it is not quackery but ... therapies recognized by the IPN.
When we see a and again the military and police searching for explosives with their pseudo molecular detectors, the raids and reviews - even vaginal - carried out since the turn of an antenna on a pivot said there is something, and we learn that are already starting to search for people buried in this useless artifact, the thing loses all its grace.
I am convinced that people believe in these things not because they are stupid-well, there are exceptions, but, again, by lack of access to information that belies the sayings of the charlatans. Faced with the constant bombardment of news, programs, books, magazines and reports uncritical, if not outright promotional pseudoceintíficas issues, it is not surprising that an ordinary person decides to buy a Power Balance ... any government or buy a GT200.
That is why worth talking about these things, even as in my case, more or less sporadic. Sure a blog is lost in cyberspace as it will not have much impact, but a beginning. If a person in a hundred that you read something written here, and above all, bound, he asks is it true? and decides to seek more information on your own, it will be worth your time. __ AT
PD Bobo me, put World Day against skepticism and pseudoscience advance ... Thanks to Juan Carlos Bujanda for noticing. Is corrected here and The other input , who was with that title every year.
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