Science
“Science, politics and truth”
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…
Without Statistics, Science would be Just Religion
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…
When prejudice is worse than bad
Everyone has prejudice. And… we like them. The reason, I believe, is simple: prejudice is convenient. Daniel Willingham has shown in his book ‘Why students don’t like school’ how thinking is…
Trust: the single most challenging problem in science and entrepreneurship
When I was a kid, there was this advertisement on TV: Gerson de Oliveira, the outstanding soccer player from the Brazilian national team that won the ’70 world cup, asked the…
Call for a Desinstitutionalized and Distributed Science
Last time I participate in a PhD selection process, I asked 10 students where did they see themselves in 10 years. The answer was unanimous: “doing research at the university”.…