{"id":32378,"date":"2017-08-06T18:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T16:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=32378"},"modified":"2021-12-27T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:53:37","slug":"non-chiamatelo-bullshit-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/06\/non-chiamatelo-bullshit-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Non chiamatelo &quot;bullshit detector&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sotto il titolo di<em> Wired<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/darpa-bs-detector-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DARPA WANTS TO BUILD A BS DETECTOR FOR SCIENCE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dan Russell, un antropologo dell&#8217;Agenzia del dip. della Difesa USA che finanzia ricerca &#8220;orfana&#8221;, ad alto tasso di fallimento e a volte surreale, protesta:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t characterize it that way, and I think it\u2019s important not to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">He doesn\u2019t want to contribute to cynicism that lets people think if scientists admit uncertainty, that means they can\u2019t be trusted. \u201cI have a deep faith that there is real science. It\u2019s not that we know nothing about the world.\u201d Science is still the best way of knowing stuff. Darpa just wants to know what stuff science is really sure about, and how it knows it. And how it knows it knows it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">La DARPA ha invece pubblicato una &#8220;richiesta di informazione&#8221; riguardante i<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Confidence Levels for the Social and Behavioral Sciences&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(h\/t Retraction Watch). Sono scienze dette molli, voodoo e altri descrittivi non proprio \u00a0lusinghieri, e<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">machine reading, natural language processing, automated meta-analyses, statistics-checking algorithms, sentiment analytics, crowdsourcing tools, data sharing and archiving platforms, network analytics,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">dovrebbe separare il grano dal loglio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vuole separarlo anche lo statistico Andrew Gelman, in maniera pi\u00f9 mirata, con la <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewgelman.com\/2017\/07\/31\/letter-editor-perspectives-psychological-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rubrica<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Letters to the Editor of <em>Perspectives on Psychological Science<\/em>, which will feature corrections that this journal refuses to print.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">La rivista appartiene all&#8217;Association for Psychological Science, da non \u00a0confondere \u00a0con l&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/01\/us\/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Psychological Association.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A proposito di sapere cosa si sa e come, da <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climalteranti.it\/2017\/08\/06\/ondate-di-calore-e-cambiamenti-climatici-non-occorre-esagerare-la-realta-e-sufficiente\/#more-6741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climalteranti<\/a><\/strong> c&#8217;\u00e8 un post sulle ondate di calore per chi vuol farsi largo fra le bufale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cosmoclimatologia nisba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkby.web.cern.ch\/kirkby\/cloud\/documents_cloud\/cloud_concept.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposto nel 1998<\/a><\/strong>, attivo dal 2009, l&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CLOUD_experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">esperimento <strong>CLOUD<\/strong><\/a>, al CERN, doveva confermare la tesi di <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henrik_Svensmark#Cosmoclimatology_theory_of_climate_change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henrik Svensmark<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0secondo la quale non sono le emissioni di gas serra bens\u00ec l&#8217;effetto combinato del vento solare e dei raggi cosmici &#8211; provenienti ciclicamente dalla galassia &#8211; sulla formazione delle nubi a determinare i cambiamenti climatici attuali. I fisici delle particelle reclutati da <a href=\"http:\/\/cloud.web.cern.ch\/content\/jasper-kirkby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasper Kirkby <\/a>tendevano talmente alla mucca sferica che i paesi finanziatori hanno minacciato di tagliare i fondi se la squadra iniziale non si faceva aiutare da biochimici, fisici e chimici dell&#8217;atmosfera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Da quel <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/08\/the-cerncloud-results-are-surprisingly-interesting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">momento<\/a><\/strong>, le cose sono andate di bene in meglio, salvo per la tesi del <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/henrik-svensmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">povero Svensmark <\/a><\/strong>finito consulente della lobby di Big Oil &amp; Coal nota come Gentlemen Who Prefer Fantasies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dall&#8217;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2017JD027475\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abstract <\/a><\/strong>di John Pierce sul <em>J. Geophys. Res. &#8211; Atmospheres<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">the CLOUD experiment subsequently unlocked many of the mysteries of nucleation and growth in our atmosphere, and <strong>it has improved our understanding of human influences on climate<\/strong>. Their most recent publication [<em>Gordon et al.<\/em>, 2017] provides their first estimate of the GCR [galactic cosmic rays]-CCN[cloud condensation nuclei] connection, and <strong>they show that CCN respond too weakly to changes in GCRs to yield a significant influence on clouds and climate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grassetto mio.<\/p>\n<p>Mi ero perso il<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/113\/43\/12053.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>paper di Gordon et al.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>uscito sui <em>PNAS<\/em> in ottobre, quando un com. stampa del CERN \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/about\/updates\/2016\/10\/cloud-experiment-sharpens-climate-predictions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vantava<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0un &#8220;modellino farlocco&#8221; pubblicato dalla collaborazione CLOUD su <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/354\/6316\/1119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotto il titolo di Wired, DARPA WANTS TO BUILD A BS DETECTOR FOR SCIENCE Dan Russell, un antropologo dell&#8217;Agenzia del dip. della Difesa USA che finanzia ricerca &#8220;orfana&#8221;, ad alto tasso di fallimento e a volte surreale, protesta: &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t characterize it that way, and I think it\u2019s important not to.&#8221; He doesn\u2019t want to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/06\/non-chiamatelo-bullshit-detector\/\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non chiamatelo &quot;bullshit detector&quot;<\/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":[8,10,26],"tags":[1469,3298,4563],"class_list":["post-32378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bufala","category-clima","category-psicologia","tag-cloud","tag-henrik-svensmark","tag-modelli","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378","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=32378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45061,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32378\/revisions\/45061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}