{"id":17187,"date":"2013-04-19T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2021-09-24T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:38:04","slug":"os-digest-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/19\/os-digest-6\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#039;s digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quackery without borders, cont.<\/strong><br \/>\nA<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">nche <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">il <em>Financial Times<\/em> fa campagna contro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/lateiera.blogspot.it\/\"><strong>La teiera<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; che scrive bene\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roars.it\/online\/asn-anvur-riserva-le-richieste-di-revisione-degli-elenchi-delle-riviste-a-terzi-ignari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>cose intelligenti<\/strong><\/a> da Roars (1) &#8211; mi segnala &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0f90ac7a-a67c-11e2-885b-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F0f90ac7a-a67c-11e2-885b-00144feabdc0.html&amp;_i_referer=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Authorities must get tough on bad science<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; di Michael Skapinker. Estratto:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>On their own, homeopathic treatments are harmless. They have been diluted to the point where there is no, or almost no, active ingredient left. They produce no side-effects because they produce no effects. Scientific tests suggest the claimed benefits are the placebo effect at work. There is no more reason to ban homeopathic remedies than to ban bottled water.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The real damage comes when an individual homeopath dissuades people from seeking medical treatment for serious conditions \u2013 or persuades parents not to protect their children through vaccination.<\/em><br \/>\nCio\u00e8 quando l&#8217;acqua in bottiglia \u00e8 venduta a 100 euro il litro come cura contro il cancro e altre malattie mortali. Come quella reclamizzata da 22 passi.<br \/>\n(1) Va bene risparmiare, ma caratteri da 6,5?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The irony&#8230; <\/strong><br \/>\nDa <em>Plos One<\/em>. Andrew Singer et al. hanno analizzato per un mese l&#8217;acqua entrata in 2 impianti di trattamento (WWTP) nell&#8217;Oxfordshire durante l&#8217;epidemia di influenza da H1N1 del 2009 e <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0060221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>concludono<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><em>Scenario and sensitivity analysis indicated between 3\u20134 and 120\u2013154 people were using oseltamivir during the study period in the two WWTP catchments and a compliance rate between 45\u201360%. With approximately half the collected antivirals going unused, there is a clear need to alter public health messages to improve compliance.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tamino ha scoperto sul <em><a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.financialpost.com\/2013\/04\/15\/lawrence-solomon-arctic-sea-ice-back-to-1989-levels-now-exceeds-previous-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Financial Post<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>la bugia pi\u00f9 sfacciata dell&#8217;anno:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Arctic sea ice back to 1989 levels, now exceeds previous decade<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><em>Over those three decades and a bit, the ice extent has varied wildly. In the first decade tracked, the 1980s, the ice extent was much greater than today. Over much of the second decade \u2013 the 1990s \u2014 the ice extent was comparable to today. The third decade saw less ice than today. The only evident trend in the ice, as in the weather, is variability<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;\">scrive il bigoilista Lawrence Salomon di <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ep.probeinternational.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Energy Probe<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;\"> (i contrari all&#8217;energia nucleare perch\u00e9 avrebbe prevenuto l&#8217;aumento del prezzo del petrolio&#8230;). Per spiegare la competenza di L. Salomon, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Tamino <a href=\"http:\/\/tamino.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/16\/worth-more-than-a-thousand-words\/#comment-81640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>fa un disegnino<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tamino.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/picture1.jpg?w=500&amp;h=322\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dall&#8217;<em>Economist<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Un <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21576377-americas-supreme-court-rule-patenting-genes-natural-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>buon riassunto<\/strong><\/a> dei processi contro i brevetti della Myriad Genetics per i geni <em>BRCA1<\/em> e<em> BRCA2 <\/em>che il 15 aprile sono arrivati alla Corte Suprema. Sono brevetti abusivi e assurde, per le ragioni gi\u00e0 spiegate dalla genetista\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enciclopediadelledonne.it\/index.php?azione=pagina&amp;id=218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Claire King<\/a>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Some observers think an anti-Myriad ruling would have little practical effect. The firm\u2019s patents expire in 2015, and technology has moved on. The cost of genetic sequencing is falling fast, and it may soon be possible for people to have their entire genomes sequenced for less than the roughly $4,000 Myriad charges for its tests. Any genes of interest could thus be examined for worrisome mutations, probably without infringing any patents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Myriad non demorde proprio perch\u00e9 vuol continuare fino all&#8217;ultimo a far pagare 4.000 dollari dei test uguali a quelli europei , molto pi\u00f9 accurati, che aveva tentato di bloccare perch\u00e9 ne violerebbero i brevetti e soprattutto perch\u00e9 costano un decimo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Da <\/span><em>Nature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In copertina &#8211; complimenti e grazie per l&#8217;open access anche ai genetisti di Trieste, Ancona e Viterbo &#8211; il <a href=\"\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v496\/n7445\/full\/nature12027.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>genoma del celacanto<\/strong><\/a>. Dall&#8217;analisi delle mutazioni, non sembra pi\u00f9 essere il parente pi\u00f9 stretto degli antichi tetrapodi, che sarebbero invece\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dipnoi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>i dipnoi<\/strong><\/a> e i <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishbase.org\/summary\/Lepidosiren-paradoxa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pesci salamandra<\/a><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> &#8211; <\/span><\/strong>vedi<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"> foto sopra<\/span><strong>\/<\/strong>grazie <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/2013\/04\/19\/os-digest-6\/comment-page-1\/#comment-388652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B. d&#8217;Aleppo<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; nota 1 sotto)<\/p>\n<p>Da aggiungere a quanto citato da<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/climafluttuante.blogspot.it\/2013\/04\/asciutte-interpretazioni.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steph<\/a> <\/strong><strong>ieri<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; i modelli di hindcasting non azzeccano i periodi di mega-siccit\u00e0 (pluridecennali) nel sud-est degli Stati Uniti, dice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/climate-models-fail-to-predict-us-droughts-1.12810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Quirin Schirmeier<\/strong><\/a> che ha seguito l&#8217;assemblea della <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egu2013.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>European Geosciences Union<\/strong><\/a>, soprattutto per colpa dell&#8217;imprevedibilit\u00e0 dell&#8217;ENSO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v496\/n7445\/full\/nature11983.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">il gruppo dei Fawcett<\/a> <\/strong>pubblica una ricerca sull&#8217;evaporazione e la traspirazione delle piante \u00a0e di conseguenza sulla quantit\u00e0 d&#8217;acqua dolce in superficie. Contribuisce di pi\u00f9 la traspirazione. Il che crea un altro problema per i modelli climatici usati per prevedere le risorse idriche \u00a0perch\u00e9 non dipende solo dalla temperatura, ma anche &#8211; per esempio &#8211; dal tipo di fogliame. Un abete suda comunque meno di un platano:<br \/>\n<em>transpiration recycles 62,000?\u00b18,000km<sup>3<\/sup> of water per year to the atmosphere, using half of all solar energy absorbed by land surfaces in the process. We also calculate CO<sub>2<\/sub> uptake by terrestrial vegetation by connecting transpiration losses to carbon assimilation using water-use efficiency ratios of plants, and show the global gross primary productivity to be 129\u00b132 gigatonnes of carbon per year&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0The dominance of transpiration&#8230; \u00a0suggests that, from the point of view of water resource forecasting, climate model development should prioritize improvements in simulations of biological fluxes rather than physical (evaporation) fluxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Facile da dirsi. Anche se si riconoscono le specie dalle immagini satellitari, non credo bastino a quantificare i flussi biologici, regolati anche dalla composizione del suolo, microbi compresi, dalle altre piante del vicinato ecc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Eugenie Reich elogia il <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/prx.aps.org\/abstract\/PRX\/v3\/i1\/e011012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>lavoro<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> di Eleonora Nagali, Vincenzo D&#8217;Ambrosio e <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/quantumoptics.phys.uniroma1.it\/Sciarrino\/Fabio_Sciarrino.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fabio Sciarrino<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> della Sapienza et al. per verificare il <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kochen-specker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>teorema di Kochen-Specker<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> e la &#8220;contestualit\u00e0 quantistica&#8221; dei fotoni. \u00a0(2)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">(1) Uffa. Secondo wiki, in italiano si dice pesci polmonati e temo di aver scritto e parlato per anni di &#8220;pesci salamandra&#8221;. Chiedo scusa, ma dal punto di vista dell&#8217;ecfrasi \u00e8 meglio di polmonati.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">(2)\u00a0Ancora pi\u00f9 spettacolare &#8211; sempre che venga confermato e non si tratti di un rumore nel macchinario &#8211; l&#8217;esperimento &#8220;Alice and Bob communicate without transferring a single photon&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2013\/apr\/16\/alice-and-bob-communicate-without-transferring-a-single-photon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>raccontato<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> da <\/span><em>P<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><em>hysics World<\/em>. \u00a0Il titolo \u00e8 corretto: l&#8217;info arriverebbe da A a B \u00a0senza alcun vettore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Da <\/strong><strong>Science<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Come non detto, troppe cose interessanti, rimando a domani. Ma ho appena rinnovato l&#8217;abbonamento e quindi mi firmo comme qui vous savez<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quackery without borders, cont. Anche il Financial Times fa campagna contro. La teiera &#8211; che scrive bene\u00a0cose intelligenti da Roars (1) &#8211; mi segnala &#8220;Authorities must get tough on bad science&#8221; di Michael Skapinker. Estratto: On their own, homeopathic treatments are harmless. They have been diluted to the point where there is no, or almost&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/19\/os-digest-6\/\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">O&#039;s digest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,16,17],"tags":[1214,2742,2938,4684,4978],"class_list":["post-17187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altri-animali","category-ambiente","category-clima","category-fisica","category-genetica","tag-celacanto","tag-fotonica","tag-geni-brevettati","tag-myriad-genetics","tag-omeopatia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41470,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions\/41470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}