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Attenzione...a come parli! Un nuovo attacco alla libertà di ricerca scientifica


Un recente articolo del Guardian (Lie detectors: the truth and nothing but? In: www.guardian.co.uk ) ha posto in luce lo scandalo che ha colpito la Nemesysco, una società israeliana che ha immesso sul mercato software che analizzano la voce di soggetti umani con finalità di lie detection. Questi dispositivi sono già stati usati negli aeroporti israeliani e russi da compagnie di assicurazione e da help-lines per l’assistenza sociale in Inghilterra, nonché venduti al pubblico. Le controversie che hanno sollevato queste strumentazioni sono relative alla mancata tutela della privacy dei soggetti analizzati, ma soprattutto all’effettiva scientificità Method: according to Nemesysci, the main software, cd. Layered Voice Analysis, would be able to give information on mental and emotional state of individuals through analysis of the "emotional content" of their answers to specific questions (mostly telephone), identifying the level of stress, cognitive processes and the emotional reactions of the subject.
use in the United Kingdom of this method has raised many doubts related to the failure to subject the experiments carried out to appropriate international peer review and risk reporting of innocent people, but to their misfortune, the nervous way of speaking. A 2006 study by the University of Florida had concluded that LVA did not demonstrate any sensitivity to the presence of stress in person, much less able to declare it a lie. Although further research funded by the National Institute of Justice United States (2008) stated that the method LVA did not have a higher margin than the pretense of finding a random system.
A recent study on the issue, published for the first time in 2007 in the journal "International Journal of Speech Language and the Law" and entitled "Charlatantry in forensic speech science" conducted by two Swedish researchers Francisco Lacerda and Anders Eriksson, condemned the ' Using technologies such as voice analysis lie detection systems. Well, the lawyers of Nemesysco have been filed a lawsuit against the publishers of the journal (Equinox), in order to counter the bad publicity arising from this article and ordered the same Equinox to withdraw without delay the on-line version of the publication. Incredibly, the publisher has agreed, by creating a very serious attack on freedom of scientific research, press and expression, also seen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science who immediately condemned the incident.
If all the national and international scientific journals are being influenced by (often inane) threats of companies that sell equipment of dubious value, spreading the so-called pseudo-science, or even junk science, which would end the same freedom of research and what would the international peer review, required not only for the accreditation of new technologies but also for their eligibility in the civil and criminal trials around the world through the evaluation of Judges of the "general acceptance of the relevant scientific community"?

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Quando la scienza diventa il capro espiatorio della politica: il terremoto dell'Aquila e le accuse di omicidio colposo ai sismologi italiani.


On 3 June 2010, the Attorney L'Aquila sent the notices of manslaughter to the President of the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) Enzo Boschi, the director of the National Center Earthquakes Giulio Selvaggi (the principal deputy to the monitoring center in Italy earthquakes), professors of geophysics Franco Barberi of Rome University and Claudio Eva, University of Genoa, the members of the Commission Major Hazards and leaders of the Civil Protection Department, including Bernardo De Bernardinis.
The base charge is that it was not promulgated a state of alert after the meeting in L'Aquila six days before the earthquake of 6.3 magnitude that struck the same city and surrounding areas, killing 308 people, leaving 1600 others injured and more than 65,000 homeless.
A group of citizens said that after the shock of grade 4.0 on the Richter scale on March 30 warned, many had expressed their intention to leaving home, but following the assurances issued by the Commission Major Hazards-a group of experts that advises the Civil Defence on what to do in case of natural disaster-that had gathered on March 31, had changed his mind. In August 2009 the citizens of L'Aquila requested a formal investigation the public prosecutor on the case, which led to the notices of June 3.
The news of the charge of culpable homicide (manslaughter) scientists appeared on the front page of scientific journals, including "Nature" (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100622/full/465992a . html).
the accused has shocked scientists around the world who have rallied to provide their support and solidarity to the Italian seismologists signing an open letter to President Napolitano (the letter and list of more than 5000 signatures are here: http://www.mi.ingv.it/open_letter).
The situation is complicated by the fact that in the weeks before the earthquake of 6 April 2009 were actually spread alarm about the imminence of a major earthquake in that Joachim Giuliani, a laboratory technician convinced to be able to predict earthquakes based on emission of radon from the soil. But Giuliani's theories have never been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, nor are they accepted by the relevant scientific community, the international seismologists, who agree instead that there is no reliable and validated method to predict earthquakes (as they write in their open letter) and that the only measures that can be taken are preventive ones.
If we were in a system of "common law" (as the U.S. or the UK) instead of "Civil Law" like ours, Richard Giuliani could be called to court to make the scientific expert ("expert witness" ). Probably not but its scientific evidence would be admissible in court because it lacks at least two of the four criteria that define a scientific evidence admissible under the Daubert Standard: publication in a scientific journal (where the data is then available to review and fasificabilità by the scientific community) and the acceptance by the relevant scientific community (for instance, that of seismologists, and not that of the card readers or crystal balls to predict the future).
On the other hand, in cases like this where science-in other similar cases, medicine-does not meet the expectations and demands, pseudo-scientific arguments are fertile and easy to hold on people.
Since there is no reliable and validated method to predict a natural disaster, the task of the policy would be to implement all possible measures to prevent a disaster is not predictable. For example: to be united in explaining that the best way to protect the population is not easy and not through an alarm system, but by investing in preventive measures: construction of earthquake resistant houses, zoning which does not allow the construction of houses in high risk areas (or on the slopes of volcanoes), modifications to existing homes , sewage systems, effective and tested with evidence on the population, etc..
Remember that an earthquake of the same scale as that Aquila could cause a much greater number of 308 deaths in underdeveloped countries or developing countries of South-East Asia, for example, while it might not cause virtually no deaths in other countries high seismic risk such as Japan, but more prepared in terms of budget to deal with such disasters.
But, if the policy fails in the tasks required of it, as happened in Italy, you can always find a scapegoat to channel the anger and despair of their own citizens from elsewhere, and encourage them to "burn the scientists", as Ben Goldacre in his post on June 18 (http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/burn-the-scientists/ # more-1699).
What would then the rule of law for a system like ours of "Civil law"?

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L'NIH deve risparmiare soldi? Basta tagliare i fondi alla "pseudoscienza".


Despite the "Recovery Act" signed by President Obama in February (http://recovery.nih.gov/), which has allocated $ 10 billion dollars to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 2010-2011, we must already start thinking about making ends meet U.S. public research budget for 2012 and subsequent years.
blogger Steven Salzerg has some advice for the President to help solve the conundro in times like this, the economic crisis. The Board of Salzberg, who runs the blog "Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience" (Genomics, Evolution and pseudoscience, http://genome.fieldofscience.com/) is simple but clear: to make ends meet without losing the NIH in quality of research, just cut all of the NIH funds two centers: the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCCAM) and the corresponding office for Alternative and Complementary Medicine Oncology (Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine). According to calculations
Salzberg, cut funds to these two institutes at NIH would save about $ 240 million a year. Money from the taxes of American citizens and who are invested in pseudoscience and are responsible for disseminating "misinformazione" about the effectiveness of unconventional treatments such as homeopathy.
The undersigned had written sympathetically about this blog (the post of May 17, 2019, http://scienzaedemocrazia.blogspot.com/2010/05/uk-niente-soldi-pubblici-allomeopatia.html) concerning the decision of British Medical Association to cut public funding to homeopathy, so I can not claim to be agreed with the advice of Steven Salzberg, especially after having just finished reading the book convinced of another detractor of public funds in pseudo-scientific projects, such as Ben Goldacre . His book "Bad Science (Fourth Estate, 2008) is an excellent collection of the best stories about the disasters that pseudoscience has caused and continues to cause in our society: from homeopathy in fact, the fashion of" nutrition "to the medicalization of mental illness - with the proliferation of pills ready to solve any problem and to create conditions like "Nocturnal Eating Disorder" (sick of eating at night, and how many of us do not are affected?) - the "hoax" of the causal relationship between MMR vaccine and autism, which caused and continues to wreak havoc on a herd immunity ('herd immunity') against the three infectious diseases of measles, mumps and rubella . As far as I know, Goldacre's book has not yet been translated into Italian, but interested parties can read his blog or his column on www.badscience.net on "The Guardian" (http://www.guardian.co .uk / science / series / badscience). One of the most recent posts on (June 5, 2010) talks about the return of another great pseudo-scientific hoax of our time: that the relationship between a diet of fish and the increased ability to concentrate in school children (http:// www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/05/bad-science-omega3-fish-oil). A conferma che l'utopia di una scorciatoia breve ed economica ai nostri problemi di tutti i giorni rimane sempre allettante. Peccato che, come molte altre scorciatoie, non porti da nessuna parte.