E assim ressurgimos das cinzas (apenas no sentido metafórico, claro) para mais um ano de resistência!
LEIA MAIS!
Parabenizamos nossos bravos colegas que com distinta clareza tiveram a coragem de colocar os pingos nos "i"s (correspondência enviada por um grupo de Acadêmicos ao presidente da ABC, em 6/3/2012):
Umberto Eco contruiu seu fabuloso romance "O Nome da Rosa" (uma boa leitura está aqui), publicado em 1980, a partir de uma imagem que o fascinava: "a imagem de um monge envenenado enquanto lia um livro na biblioteca". A idéia é recorrente na literatura, mas trago-a aqui como metáfora para o mundo real: é possível editar uma versão envenenada de um livro outrossim impecável?
Fonte: Pharyngula
Eles estão de volta!
Lá vai o serviço:


What's the harm?
Antiscience kills. It does. Chelation, exorcisms, alternative medicine
that replaces real medicine… all these (and many, many more) do real
measurable damage to people.
But c'mon, folks like Sylvia Brown don't really hurt us, right? They
tell us what we want to hear, and that's good. Right?
Right?
Wrong.
Fantasy has its place, but when it replaces reality it hurts us. We
don't seek cures, we don't heal, we cannot make rational decisions.
But specific examples of this are hard to pin down sometimes because
of the vast number of cases which are spread out all over the place.
Well, not any more. Now when someone asks "What's the harm?" you can
send them right to What's The Harm. This is a compendium of actual
cases, real people who have been hurt or money that has been wasted
due to magical thinking, from acupuncture to the Y2K scare. It's a
very interesting place to click around.
… until you see how children get hurt by this. Little kids, babies,
injured or even killed by parents who were not able to break free of
the blinders they wore due to some brand of antiscience. This is no
joke, and it makes my stomach churn. People, sometimes children, die
because of this.
Again, there are so many reasons to fight nonsensical thinking. But in
the world, in the real world, it's because we need to save peoples'
lives.
What's The Harm allows you to submit cases yourself. Help them out,
and let's make this a resource for people all over the world to help
save the world.
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