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Ciencia o pseudociencia
A smart and provocative thriller about spies, double agents, and the opaqueness of the human soul.A young woman is found dead. Her sister sets out to find out what happened - and stumbles into a world of secrets and subterfuge that makes her question who Justine really was. How well can you ever know someone who lies for a living?Dawn King's play Ciphers was premiered at the Exeter Northcott Theatre in October 2013, in a co-production by Out of Joint, the Bush Theatre and Exeter Northcott Theatre, directed by Blanche McIntyre, before embarking on a UK tour. [Texto de la editorial]
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Pseudoscience : a very short introduction
\"Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction explores the philosophical and historical attempts to address this problem of demarcation between science and pseudoscience. Many people would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under the umbrella of pseudoscience - astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, and eugenics might come to mind - but a precise definition has proven impossible. This book explores a bewildering array of marginalized doctrines, focusing on some of the central debates about what science is and is not, and how such controversies have shifted over the centuries, and offers a historical and philosophical approach to fringe science and scientific controversies in the past and the present\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Una aproximación veroniana al fenómeno de la expansión de discursos pseudocientíficos en tiempos de revolución tecnológica
La presente propuesta tiene como objetivo principal identificar y caracterizar las nuevas condiciones de mediatización que, en tiempos de revolución tecnológica, dan cabida a la actual propagación de creencias y discursos pseudocientíficos. Para tal fin se toma como eje de referencia al concepto de mediatización ofrecido por el semiólogo argentino Eliseo Verón. Sin caer en un determinismo tecnológico, no se puede dejar de reparar en las condiciones presentes que este ambiente tecno-mediático comporta en términos de acceso, circulación y consumo de pseudociencias. Haciendo usufructo de las potencialidades comunicativas inherentes a los nuevos dispositivos técnicos que pueblan nuestra cotidianeidad, sus promotores encuentran en la presente infraestructura tecno-comunicacional una vía idónea para su difusión y popularización en un marco que reconoce el avance de discursos relativistas y posmodernistas que buscan desacreditar y deslegitimar a la ciencia y a sus amplios y expresivos logros.
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Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms
Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from consciousness, which is subjective, and accounts for its presence and quality in objective, testable terms. Attempts to label as ‘pseudoscientific’ a theory distinguished by decades of conceptual, mathematical, and empirical developments expose a crisis in the dominant computational-functionalist paradigm, which is challenged by IIT’s consciousness-first paradigm.
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Nonsense on stilts : how to tell science from bunk
\"Why do people believe in bunk? And what causes them to embrace such pseudoscientific beliefs and practices and ignore data? Noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this entertaining exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science, and nonsense on stilts. Presenting case studies on a number of controversial topics, Pigliucci cuts through the ambiguity surrounding science to look more closely at how science is conducted, disseminated, and interpreted, and what it means to our society\"-- Publisher description.
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Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence
Misinformation can undermine a well-functioning democracy. For example, public misconceptions about climate change can lead to lowered acceptance of the reality of climate change and lowered support for mitigation policies. This study experimentally explored the impact of misinformation about climate change and tested several pre-emptive interventions designed to reduce the influence of misinformation. We found that false-balance media coverage (giving contrarian views equal voice with climate scientists) lowered perceived consensus overall, although the effect was greater among free-market supporters. Likewise, misinformation that confuses people about the level of scientific agreement regarding anthropogenic global warming (AGW) had a polarizing effect, with free-market supporters reducing their acceptance of AGW and those with low free-market support increasing their acceptance of AGW. However, we found that inoculating messages that (1) explain the flawed argumentation technique used in the misinformation or that (2) highlight the scientific consensus on climate change were effective in neutralizing those adverse effects of misinformation. We recommend that climate communication messages should take into account ways in which scientific content can be distorted, and include pre-emptive inoculation messages.
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