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“Flashy results for fancy journals”. Or: “Rewarding researchers for the number of papers they publish results in a ‘natural selection’ of sloppy science”. I’ve found this kind of statements,...
03 March 2018 5,390 49 View
Investigating what is actually the impact of published scientific articles, I found several references about a related, disturbing phenomenon. It seems that it is not at all unusual for...
09 September 2016 410 85 View
This problem may be posed in some different ways, which lead to pressing questions. For example: --If historical events are merely the result of “impersonal forces” or “objective” causes, then...
04 April 2016 7,501 37 View
Hypocrisy, according to usual definitions, means not practicing what we preach, saying one thing and doing another, or publicly upholding moral norms for others to follow, but personally violating...
04 April 2016 8,217 57 View
This is a celebrated Albert Einstein quote: “The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who...
04 April 2016 6,567 66 View
A report from the Pew Research Center, based on a pair of surveys conducted in the US by this institution in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),...
01 January 2016 9,273 61 View
In his book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995), John Allen Paulos maintains that “much economic and political commentary and forecast are fatuous nonsense”. Because of the inherent...
01 January 2016 7,257 44 View
Some scientists disregard philosophy as a distant or confusing discipline or way of thinking. But others have a different view. “Heisenberg would have never done quantum mechanics without being...
12 December 2015 3,660 87 View
The so called Information Explosion –the exponential growth of published information and data— is a result and a source of scientific and technological development. As it can be used to increase...
12 December 2015 8,978 75 View
It seems that most of us would prefer a politics based more on values and principles, not only on interests. The point is: Is it possible to get this? How? What should be those values or...
10 October 2015 7,539 85 View
We have already entered into the Internet age, but the dominance of TV is far from over. Criticism of the TV political coverage is so intense that has resulted in a specific field of discussion...
10 October 2015 7,236 73 View
It seems that forty or fifty years ago the idea of what was a ‘good citizen’ was clearer than today. ‘Good citizens” were individuals who did not pursue only their own interest, but also felt...
09 September 2015 7,027 52 View
Today in my country, for example, common people are learning to value diversity more than in the past. Although we are far from perfect, most ordinary citizens have learned not to discriminate...
08 August 2015 1,323 70 View
