Se mal não faz, porque não posso experimentar?
Essa observação aparentemente inocente é comum nos meios crédulos, mas frequentemente oculta a completa desinformação acerca de possíveis consequências à saúde, ao bolso, e, por vezes, à vida.
Há um 'çáitch' (site em brasileiro) que se dedica a colecionar e documentar casos de reais perdas causadas por clássicos da mistificação pseudocientífica: chama-se "What's the Harm?". Visitando-o, pode-se descobrir algumas consequências por vezes inauditas da crença acrítica em coisas como projeção astral, cientologia, OVNIs, Criacionismo ou a "farsa" do pouso da Apollo 11 na lua...
Lamentavelmente está apenas em inglês, mas quem está na rede é para se enredar, não é mesmo?
Queres saber mais? Leia abaixo:
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.
LEIA MAIS!
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