Hello Goodnight
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I’m going to tell you a story
when I was little I wanted to be
stewardess if I wanted to be a stewardess for
be able to fly to visit other
countries
Of course my parents had arrived from
germany they settled in the
conurbano de buenos aires and for the
neighbors of my block travel to others
countries was as far as becoming
in astronaut but then crisis and
I met my husband
we had children and then trying to
find a job that will allow me
combined times of my family and
those at work can work at night
when the kids were at school
I became a journalist who
thinking it over is another way of
travel and travel from the pyramids
Egyptian to the underworld of matter or to
the worlds of outer space go with
the space probes visit pluton and
also travel
in fact because thanks to journalism
visit many places where I interviewed
to personalities that were
building the knowledge of our
days
that’s why this morning I did what I do
every morning as soon as I put a foot
out of bed I started to read the
news but not football news
of politics or show
I started reading
the news that have to do with
It became a science fiction world that
visit the world’s scientists
whole and I did not have to go very far
It was enough to open my twitter to
find there data as for example
that a baby was born with material
of three people or that the
biodiversity is so threatened that it
only mammals are at risk
but also to the insects and that
for example in the future it is thought that
there will be operations with scalpel is
molecular all things really
incredible goes credible because they are the
advances that are taking place
our scientists
for example one of the news that you and
is that there will be autonomous cars that
they will be able to transport us without need
of driver said there I am for the
side of an autonomous car keel is
is developing in california and that
I was fortunate to know just in
a trip that I made last week to the
World conference of journalists
scientists
this is a car in which one sits
and a car does not have a clear steering wheel
autonomous seems a fantastic thing
but it also poses problems
unused so far for example
if the car is carried ahead to a
person and that to whom you have to throw the
blame the car on the person and if the car
still has a group of
people who do not want to step on were due and
it turns out that – other than how it’s going
to indicate to the car
what do you have to do to be in
your program to avoid these accidents
all these questions are asked by the
scientists and they also show the
wonderful duality of science that
it allows us to access possibilities
unsuspected so far but that
It also poses new problems
the science is impressive the amount
of progress of discoveries of
findings that are made every day every
month the scientific journals are thousands
and every year millions of
jobs
let’s think that only China has thought
by 2020 to have 20 million doctors
and researchers is something that we
overwhelm
but what floods us and is the new world
in which we live and you are going to
say good or read the news
scientific because you are curious and have
reason one for your own curiosity about
the curiosity that we all feel and
we want to know all these news
a philosopher named douglas costa ter
once he said science is awarded
of fascination and mystery not in the
sense of that superficial curiosity
that vanishes very quickly but in the
sense of wonder and strangeness that
they suggest to the human being the vastness of the
cosmos and then stereo of the most
minimum constituents of the material
we live in a wonderful world and
just in science what can
reveal all those mysteries
but science is not only attractive
because he presents us with a film that does not
Surprise at every step
it is also a way of thinking is a
tool to achieve things that such
ten years ago we would have thought
that are incredible
for example two years ago a probe
launched ten years before he was able to meet
millions of kilometers
with this that they see on the screen is a
Kite
comet 67 p the scientists of the
European space agency
they planned to the millimeter the trip of that
probe that circled around
of the sun and the earth to get to
find yourself as if you will meet
with a tiny grain of sand in the
cosmic ocean science also we
gives vaccines and poses problems
about which you have to decide every day
from here you can not see but if I
say for example who of you who
tell me who and who of you if it is
he had to decide whether to give
vaccinate your children if you opt for a test
of prenatal pregnancy or an abortion or
for surgery or had to decide if
He wanted his country to install the
electronic vote or sky mining
open it is likely that almost all have
had to take any of these
decisions and to be able to decide
confuse
Bento based on objective facts is
It is necessary to understand what science is
of our days because if we do not fall in
the hands of warlocks of tarot players
healers who can really
recommend treatments or exits that
they have no handle nothing to do
with reality
what I am telling you what
we invent ourselves is not something new no
it’s something of the 21st century
in 1801 the merchant telegraph that was
the first newspaper published in the
viceroyalty
I already said that it was published to inspire
the love of the arts and sciences and
to promote the inspiration of the
arts and sciences in the minds of the
people in the mercantile telegraph already in
those days, notes were published
example about glass technology
Anyway if the glass and notes
archaeological findings that were made
think that we were in 1801
for example an article that had the
phenomenon title attributed the
find those bones so big that
they just belonged to animals
prehistoric were fossil bones what
attributes to the goodness of the land of
100 terrado cadaver of regular stature
if it is taken out after some time it
they find the bones extremely grown
which is why some believe that in that
earth there were giants
they thought with some theories
a little naive that when one
buried to some bones in a land
fertile so how the plants grew
the bones also grew
well before the telegraph
merchant more than twenty centuries before and
Plato considered that who did not know
the rudiments of science was
committing an insult
he said the man who could not
discerning the one nor the 2003 and in general
parents and the odd or the one who does not
I knew nothing to tell or that it was not
able to measure day and night or
lacked experience about the
revolutions of the moon or the sun or of
the other stars good said platón
that’s more like beasts
swine tremendous good to write about
scientific journalism is almost the same
what to write about the wars of
afghanistan the election campaigns or
all the other stories that the
journalism there are also heroes like the
on Mars that developed rockets capable
of going into space back because they are
reusable and descend in shape
vertical something that had not been seen and
it seemed impossible and there are also
villains like the gentleman who is at
right of you in science
there are also heroes and villains because
science is made by people by
men and women who have six children
that are crossed by prejudices and
by all the tendencies of the culture
before
of our days it was considered that the
science was simply the search for
the truth without any interest
so much so that at the time of the
ancient Greece
euclid the great mathematician of upyd is
one day he was presented at the door of
his house a disciple and he made him
ask what is the use of studying
math
then the wise man sent his slave in
that era there were slaves and he said
give an ovule to that poor devil that
he thinks he has to study to win
something in the mind of utilities did not fit
the possibility that one would like to use
the knowledge to get some
revenue
but all that was changing the science
much closer
at the end of the 19th century and already in the 20th century
was organized as a company in which
If you look for new findings, you look for
solve the mysteries answer
questions that we all ask ourselves and that
do the scientists themselves but already
it is a profession
today scientists are subject to
all kinds of pressures
On the one hand they have to fulfill their
deadlines have to answer in front of
agencies that grant them subsidies
they have to prove that what they are
investigating will serve to apply
in something profitable for your country for its
community and they also have to
develop research that can
be publishable only in your country but
also in scientific journals
of the northern hemisphere means that
they are really
and pressed but we said that all
that knowledge that is added
week week day after day van
conditioning our world and then
they present us with new dilemmas we have to
decide on many issues for
that you have to be prepared
for example not long ago it was given to
meet in all media
that angelina jolie had opted for
get a radical double mastectomy
because I had a high risk of suffering
hereditary breast cancer
how she took that decision had to
find out about the risk he had
had to know that it existed before
laboratory that could detect if she
had those genes that predispose
breast cancer and had to argue with
your doctor if you really perform that
surgery could protect it and prevent
arise in your body
this disease when along
our life we see ourselves
confronted with these decisions
many times we have to know not only
the results offered by the
scientific research but also
how this process of
investigation
we have to know for example that when
we read in a newspaper that people who
they drink a lot of coffee they have less risk of
suffer from Alzheimer
that tells us a lot because we do not know if
those same people
they also take care of their weight they make a life
fury
maintain a healthy diet
then of course they have less risk of
have Alzheimer’s but maybe it’s not because
the coffee since they did an experiment
there are two variables we do not know to which of
the two or three or four do not know to
which of the two
attribute the result to him that two things
occur simultaneously as per
example Alzheimer’s and coffee not
means that one is the cause of the
other
in the same way as the fact that it comes out
the sun is in the morning and the rooster sings
it does not mean that the sun comes out because
The rooster sings are two facts
simultaneous but we do not know about the
cause of the other the cause of the other
we also have to know for example
that the experiments in mice are
very far from what happens next in
humans
many times we see great headlines that
they say they cured diabetes and then
tiny in mice in mice
They rushed everything but as the
last week just in this
meeting in san francisco
an English researcher told me the
mice are exaggerated and liars
it was a way of jokingly saying that
experiments in mice are always
preliminaries do not prove what is going to happen
the same can not be extrapolated
directly what happens in mice to
humans
all this we have to know
when we read news about
scientific discoveries
not long ago it reached Argentina a
economist a few years ago a
Economist named Juan Enriquez
I think
the life sciences institute of
the harvard university and in said the
February 12 , 2001 something so happened
impressive as when Columbus arrived
to america changed the world map in
the one that we live
you know what happened on that 2001 date the
February 12, 2001 was published in the
two most important magazines in the world
scientist science in major
the decoding of the human genome is
spelled the book of life and then
said Enriquez is knowing the genes
know the language of genes and
knowing the digital language is going to
change everything forever
today we can make corn plants that
produce nylon we can produce
artificial intelligence and algorithms
of the world and digital are those that are
managing our world
then the countries that dominate that
language the language of science and the
technology are those that advance those that
they get rich and those who do not
those whose kids do not know the
language of science are those that go to
get fit and win behind many of
you the biggest ones surely the
will know and others may know
for the stories that tell of him was
a great popularizer of science maybe
the biggest one that came to more
people and in his last book before
die the world and its demons in
synthesized
all this that I am telling you about
of the
yearning to know the language of
science to make equivocal decisions
in all government on earth
there is some trace of human weakness
all government degenerates
if you trust only the
rulers the town said sagan is the
only safe depository but so that
exist security must cultivate the
thought
if we can not think for ourselves
we are pure putty in the hands of those who
they exercise power and not only those who
they exercise power from governments
but those who exercise power from
all the areas in which it is exercised
the power from a doctor who may not
give us the explanations that we
we ask, we need, we need a
company that may want to take us to
a diet that is not the most
healthy to be able to move and take
decisions in this world where the
science surrounds us
we must understand the language of the
science science is confined in its
areas but society is interested
the messages of the media by means of
words
we can produce effects the
scientific journalists as well as the
motto of this meeting
We can build bridges between the
science and scientists and laymen
between science and society and the most
important and the biggest challenge that
we have the 12 scientific journalists
it is not to count results but to transmit
the basics of critical thinking
is thinking
I feel that led the scientists to
the tests that we all know
what is clear is that science we
belongs to everyone
we want it or we do not want it we live in
march be they we have to talk about
she in the cafes in the newspapers in the
television on the radio because without
scientific knowledge as you say
do we are pure putty in the hands of
others who will make decisions for
told us that when he was
little one wanted to be a flight attendant but now
considered that journalism and in
particular scientific journalism is
the best trade in the world
talk about science transmit the
rudiments of the scientific method is
also put our two cents
so we can make informed decisions
in every moment for our life to
our neighborhood for the future of the
human family
science is too important for
leave it aside and especially and
too important to leave it only
in the hands of scientists
thank you very much
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