{"id":25290,"date":"2014-08-16T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=25290"},"modified":"2021-10-10T14:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T12:45:49","slug":"o-s-digest-e-bufale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/16\/o-s-digest-e-bufale\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#039;s digest (e bufale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/742\/F1.medium.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSpeciale evoluzione, neuroscienze, biologia, microbiologia, genetica ed epigenetica del &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/742.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parenting<\/a>&#8221; su <em>Science<\/em>, &#8220;un&#8217;eredit\u00e0 che trascende i geni&#8221;, disastrosa quando non c&#8217;\u00e8 nemmeno in forme sostitutive, come scrive Eliot Marshall, in un sunto del\u00a0<a href=\"Bucharest Early Intervention Project \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bucharest Early Intervention Project<\/a> della Harvard Medical School, che<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>intervened in 2000 to offer high-quality foster care to a randomly selected group of Romanian orphans; it also tracked a group who lived in institutions. (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uclouvain.be\/cps\/ucl\/doc\/ebim\/documents\/The_Bucharest_Early_Intervention_Project__Case.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was controversial<\/a><\/strong>; some critics thought that it was improper to study any children in institutions.) The researchers, who are now preparing to revisit these children in their 15th year, have published strong evidence showing that those who remained in institutional care after the age of 24 months had major delays in cognitive development (among other problems). The researchers found that if foster care began before 24 months, children were able to catch up with peers in many ways<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(link aggiunto)\u00a0Quelli lasciati negli orfanatrofi, no &#8211; si stima che nel mondo siano otto milioni.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>A proposito di etica, Martin Ensenrink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/718.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">riferisce<\/a> il dibattito sull&#8217;uso di farmaci dall&#8217;efficacia non dimostrata contro Ebola, come interferone alfa e statine; il WHO ha autorizzato un farmaco non testato e sta considerando <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/africa\/2014\/08\/who-ponders-treating-ebola-infected-people-blood-survivors?rss=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trasfusioni di sangue<\/a> prelevato ai sopravvissuti, ma servirebbero mezzi che in Africa non esistono.<\/p>\n<p>Sull&#8217;epidemia, il <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emergency.cdc.gov\/han\/han00365.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC<\/a><\/strong> \u00e8 pi\u00f9 aggiornato del WHO; le previsioni di <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msf.org\/diseases\/ebola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res<\/a> \u00e8 che ci vorranno 6 mesi per contenerla, sempre che non si diffonda in una metropoli nigeriana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Se non bastano le cattive notizie, la Difesa britannica ha consegnato i dati sulle vittime civili in Afghanistan a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/723.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Shortland<\/a>, del Center for Terrorism and Security Studies, che li ha analizzati; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/site\/feature\/data\/hottopics\/afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sono pubblici<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/722.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">articolo<\/a> di John Bohannon, anch&#8217;esso open access.<br \/>\nLa sicurezza \u00e8 un problema anche per lo sviluppo post-ISAF, scrive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/725.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Stone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>As the flood of foreign aid that has buoyed Afghanistan&#8217;s economy for more than a decade recedes, the country&#8217;s prosperity may well depend on its prodigious mineral resources, valued at $908 billion. The U.S. Geological Survey has been putting scientific boots on the ground to acquire more data that will help mining companies decide whether to invest in Afghanistan.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gi\u00e0, alla patriottica direttrice la mappa delle risorse sembra &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/715.summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scienza per la pace<\/a>&#8220;. In un paese meno dilaniato forse, a me sembra \u00a0una fonte di altri conflitti come tanti &#8220;aiuti&#8221; fin qui&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Nei papers,<br \/>\n&#8211; le reti fognarie si corrodono sempre pi\u00f9 in fretta, e sostituirle \u00e8 costosissimo, ma\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6198\/812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ricercatori <\/a>dell&#8217;univ. del Queensland,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>performed an extensive industry survey and sampling campaign across Australia &#8230; Aluminum sulfate added as a coagulant during drinking water treatment was the primary culprit in corroding sewer systems. Modifying this common treatment strategy to include sulfate-free coagulants could dramatically reduce sewer corrosion across the globe.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; anticipata da <em>Science Express<\/em>, c&#8217;\u00e8 una ricerca sulla fusione dei ghiacciai tra il 1851 e il 2010, di <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2014\/08\/13\/science.1254702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Marzeion et al.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>the anthropogenic signal is detectable with high confidence in glacier mass balance observations during 1991 to 2010, and the anthropogenic fraction of global glacier mass loss during that period has increased to 69 \u00b1 24%.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rif. anche <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2014\/aug\/15\/humans-now-strongest-driver-of-glaciers-melting-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Larry Clifton della<em> Digital Review<\/em> cerca di descrivere il processo Mann vs. National Review come un tentativo di uno scienziato di censurare le critiche &#8220;scientifiche&#8221;. In realt\u00e0 erano accuse di aver falsificato i dati dell&#8217;hockey stick 1999, riprodotto nel frattempo da decine di <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v6\/n5\/full\/ngeo1797.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gruppi indipendenti<\/a>. Accuse accompagnate dal paragone con uno stupratore di minorenni, <a href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/19\/lequivalenza-del-negazionista\/\">usato<\/a> da\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/23\/lequivalenza-del-negazionista-ii\/\">Maurizio Morabito<\/a>. Conclusione di\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2014\/08\/14\/larry-clifton-on-michael-manns-suit-nope-wrong-sorry\/#.U-1YiJfYjs4.twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Laden:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>So, no, Larry, you\u2019ve got this totally wrong.\u00a0<\/em><em>(Sort of off topic, but Larry, you also have the bits about global warming in your post totally wrong as well. Sort of \u201cbigfoot is real\u201d level wrong, actually.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><strong>FuF d\u00e9j\u00e0 vues<\/strong><br \/>\nL&#8217;e-cat in numero maggiore di 1 ha ottenuto un &#8220;certificato di sicurezza&#8221;, Rossi <em>dixit<\/em>. Quanti anni fa?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improntaunika.it\/2014\/08\/cannae-drive-motore-funziona-carburante-allinfinito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giorni<\/a> fa, i <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/scienze\/2014\/08\/04\/news\/motore_futuro_nasa-93088061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2014-07\/31\/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abboccavano<\/a> alla &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/scienze\/2014\/08\/04\/news\/motore_futuro_nasa-93088061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conferma<\/a>&#8220;, da parte di <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2014-08\/07\/10-qs-about-nasa-impossible-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scienziati<\/a> della NASA, della\u00a0propulsione elettromagnetica da &#8220;plasma virtuale del vuoto quantistico&#8221;, inventata dall&#8217;esperto di marketing e laureato in chimica fisica &#8211; <em>ipse dixit<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachelsvineyard.org\/PDF\/Fettas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guido Fetta<\/a> (e da <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/app\/basic\/stream\/z13gzfm4xt2tuxehl04chvywcofjhhzhwbk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">altri<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Dall&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20140006052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abstract <\/a>della presentazione dei test, al workshop del 30 luglio:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust. Specifically, one test article contained internal physical modifications that were designed to produce thrust, while the other did not (with the latter being referred to as the &#8220;null&#8221; test article).\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Con e senza la propulsione, la spinta era sempre di\u00a030-50 microNewton. Il test della NASA ha semmai confermato che il Cannae Drive \u00e8 un acchiappa-merli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Su <em>Wired<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.it\/play\/cultura\/2014\/08\/14\/guru-james-randi-bufala\/?utm_source=wired&amp;utm_medium=NL&amp;utm_campaign=daily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continua<\/a> la serie di bufale raccolte da Stefano Dalla Casa (h\/t C.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speciale evoluzione, neuroscienze, biologia, microbiologia, genetica ed epigenetica del &#8220;Parenting&#8221; su Science, &#8220;un&#8217;eredit\u00e0 che trascende i geni&#8221;, disastrosa quando non c&#8217;\u00e8 nemmeno in forme sostitutive, come scrive Eliot Marshall, in un sunto del\u00a0Bucharest Early Intervention Project della Harvard Medical School, che intervened in 2000 to offer high-quality foster care to a randomly selected group of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/16\/o-s-digest-e-bufale\/\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">O&#039;s digest (e bufale)<\/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":[8,9,10,20,22],"tags":[197,674,1111,2109,2995,3216,5204,5583,6166],"class_list":["post-25290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bufala","category-chimica","category-clima","category-medicina","category-neuroscienze","tag-afghanistan","tag-attribuzione","tag-cannae-drive","tag-ebola","tag-ghiacciai","tag-guido-fetta","tag-parenting","tag-propulsione-elettromagnetica","tag-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290","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=25290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42536,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions\/42536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}