start telling a story like
As I all received a degree in
biological sciences in the faculty of
exact and natural sciences of the uba
on December 28, 2001
the picture was not very encouraging for
do science many of my classmates
of litter I knew they had decided to do
doctorates outside and while here I do not
According rather than president of all
what happened we had
I said well I think I ‘m going to do
a doctor in argentina a PhD in
neurosciences and so I did in the
laboratory between I remember that there was
things my thesis director said
jorge medina as for example if the
dollar follows 5 pesos
I close the laboratory did not close it
it was but it would not have finished the
doctorate the dollar went from five
pesos
if it is not, but the laboratory would have
been making rat
well it’s really full of rats
but not those on the street but good
while trying to get in the way
of a PhD
I was also wondering what to do with
all that indignation and all that
frustration that generates science in
Argentina at that time especially that
outrage because the budget was
Very low financing was very poor
atrociously they earned four times more than
I
so good that has been all
with all that strength that comes from the
indignation at that time actually
already hovering in 2003 in my
sister is director of the magazine
barcelona and she in the marriage of my
brother and I had written it a
speech and he liked how he knew that
that discourse discovered that I that I
I could write and he told me why not
why do not you try to write some
good notes
for barcelona index good what better
place to transform that outrage
that frustration towards how the media
communicate science whether they are literacy
scientific in something productive between
in quotes so good that what
try
these are some of the first notes
who wrote for the magazine in
particular is a once cold take off
sequence of the human genome and find
that says the point to the one who reads but not
there were many things and they all had to
see with trying in some way to
parody the way in which the media
communicated in science about all this
idea of making headlines
gift that never or almost never reflected what
that they had actually done
truly the scientists always
somehow they were exaggerating two
but since I was dedicated to neuroscience
and neuroscience saw that it ‘s like
fashionable now everything has a euro this
could be a talk neuron can not
dedicate will be european mary to be a
euro cameraman
so it’s good that now I’m going to choose
one of the notes to talk to you a little
of the brain and how the media treat
to the absolute zero of the crimes that
they make the media against the brain
these are some of the headlines that
that appear less a few there but
I feel if one starts looking and they saw
that whenever they say step such thing
according to the investigation or according to
study then nobody that
automatically believe the title if
basile and if an investigation says
assured that real sure that title
is what it says but the truth is that
almost never happens that because not when one
he starts to read
even if you do not go to the sources
is what they really exaggerate
the media in particular this headline
better quite calm because you want
the neuroscientist go for the good
I do not know if the chemistry of the brain
explains the behavior and it’s not that there is a
time the brain is in a galaxy
year
they are commanded by extraterrestrials
then we go more or less well one of
I would say myths but one of the things
most widespread about the brain is
that the brain works like a muscle
do not
the idea is that if you practice
doing crosswords instead of going
educate you or the university then
make a cloak better at work is going to
be much smarter than all your
mates of all your your member of the
facebook group of ex facebook
For example, students needed smart
because the army my brain and this in
reality is much more is
proven in fact there is a
very large research that was done
to show that if you train in
some particular task that makes very
good in that task today but that there is not
it does not improve much in the other things
whereas if one is educated and if not
have tertiary education for example
that does improve cognition
notably
another of the things that obsess
to the media this idea of how much we use
of the brain uses a lot in it
10% and they were using the 11% person a
genius and this is kind of like
expression of desire not this idea that
if we do not use if we are not using all
our brain capacity then
we have the possibility to improve well
the possibility of not transforming
your belongings that we can not scratch the
back with the mind taking out the trash or
the mind nothing but the truth is that
It is not so
in fact we use 100% of the brain is
true that there we are not using
all structures of the brain to
same time this year is
specialized but basically we use
the whole brain would be much easier
because why think that we only use
10% of masterminding is like most
simple to think that we are really
all pretty idiots was good another of
the obsessions of the media with the
brain is that of the differences between
the two
male and female tsunami
preferred because the differences that
according to him they always explain everything from
because women like the novel
of the five soran speaks more a lot
of other things but actually those
incumbents do nothing but reinforce or
somehow reinforce these ideas
exist west is this idea that if
we found a difference that
explains why women have to
be oppressed or have they are very
emotional then you should not give them
ball and so on
The truth is that differences exist
They are quite small for
explain all these things that suggest
the headlines in the media in general
what is what they are used for
oppress certain groups that
some reason they are unfairly
discriminated but good to go
closing in reality the one that you want it
I wanted to tell beyond the
neuroscience and what it has to do with
with the brain is that science does not
is to justify to check the
prejudices that we have as
society is not it said nacho pence
we all think this and finally the
science proved it
is not science is not for that the
sciences what gives us tools to
have critical thinking and the
scientists and those we communicate
science we have as a duty to transmit
that critical thinking to the
scientists because science is
basically a way to do the
revolution to create a change
important but this revolution does not
obviously it is done from our
table of our laboratories of our
computer
thank you very much
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