Questo post nasce come commento al post di Aldo Rustichini su nFA, ma è troppo lungo e troppo articolato e sta meglio qui. Dice Aldo che alcuni eventi recenti suggeriscono che “un ripensamento sulla evidenza disponibile sul Global Warming e’ consigliabile”. Perché non sono affattto d’accordo.
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Si parla tanto di influenza e vaccini, ultimamente. Provo a farlo anche io, cercando di mettere enfasi sulle cose che raramente vengono dette in altre sedi. Parto con lo spiegare alcuni dei punti fondamentali della biologia dell’influenza, per capire (semplificando un po’). Siccome il fulcro principale di tutto il circo mediatico ruota attorno alla pericolosità del virus, mi soffermerò sui meccanismi che lo rendono pericoloso.
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Everybody knows Wikipedia so no need for introduction. Let’s just say that of the many very different opinions I have heard about it – placeable everywhere in the range from most celebratory to destructive – there is a quote that I find very attractive:
Wikipedia should not work, but it does!
This quote, which I believe is attributable to one of the fathers of wikpedia, Larry Sanger, says much about the on-line encyclopedia:
- Wikipedia is an experiment. A crazy one. Most people would have thought that the wiki affair would have been a failure but in fact it is now after only few years the biggest encyclopedia available nowadays.
- Nobody really knows how and why wikipedia works.