Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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The seer, the crisis and the gullible journalist (II)

The crisis is not just financial. Also, in some cases, is intellectual. recently told a story of El Heraldo de Aragón in which a journalist was involved in counting the excellence of clairvoyance. He spoke of how well they work cards to get by, more or less, and are reliable. Now I meet other like, this time published ABC, giving the pseudo-propaganda, showing that the crisis gives a lot of game and that in lean times, to be a fool to his readers with the first nonsense that to mind. This is .
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again miss a newspaper that should inform and educate readers, that has a major responsibility for the amount of people who have access to them. Instead, space and time devoted to promoting magical thinking, superstition and ignorance. And he prefers to stun society, prevent the advancement of science, plant, ultimately, the world of demons while turning the light of critical thinking and scientific.
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Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, closing one chapter of "The dream of a final theory:" Our discovery of related structures and convergent scientific explanations have made us the great service teach there is no place in nature for astrology, telekinesis, creationism or other superstitions. " ABC journalist has a rather different idea of \u200b\u200bpseudoscience. In fact, completely different, and are they capable of giving the right answers, the better, even if one turns to the right. Where it fails ... There's the tarot! And so begins his story, or the free infomercial clairvoyance makes him (emphasis mine):
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"When the rational solutions fall into pieces by the severity of the crisis, and economists do not offer solutions, people looking for answers where there are solutions . In this case, esoteric sector: tarot, astrology, fortune telling, palmistry and spiritual psychology. "
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And that says a newspaper "Really? A great example of public service to citizens. You know. If you have a problem, invest in psychics, astrologers, psychologists palmists and spiritual (?). Must be the best in times of crisis, precisely because they have said in the newspaper, right?

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