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1st article that shaped my career: “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” – Gould & Lewontin, 1979

11/01/2022 By In Science 1 Comment

Euclydes Santos used this article during his course ‘Physiological adaptations to estuarine environment’, in graduate school. I seriously doubt that, even with all the interest that I have for everything that is Gould’s or Lewontin’s, I would bump into it if it wasn’t for him. So, thank you (again) Euclydes (The) adaptationist program (…) is […]

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“Science, politics and truth”

08/10/2022 By In Data, Science No Comments

The notice on the wall of the Biophysics Institute inviting to Ennio Candotti’s talk was provocative and I had to go. That was many years ago, but I still remember as if it was today. Far from being a celebrity, Ennio was pretty well know in academia in Brazil. Italian born, the physicist got his education in […]

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Without Statistics, Science would be Just Religion

08/10/2022 By In Data, Philosophy, Science No Comments

A very important article published today in Nature called my attention. It talks, again, about the misuses of statistics by scientists and the volume of unreproducible studies it is producing. You probably have heard the joke: “there are three kinds of lies: lies, big lies and statistics”. Even though unfair (does anyone expect a joke to be fair?), it is […]

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