Un artículo del que me siento orgulloso y que hoy publica el #ScienceMediaCentre

“Único, extraño, sobrecogedor”: qué se siente al vivir un eclipse total de Sol

https://sciencemediacentre.es/unico-extrano-sobrecogedor-que-se-siente-al-vivir-un-eclipse-total-de-sol

Como dentro justo de 5 meses podremos vivir un #eclipse total, así la gente se va preparando para el subidón.

Si no conocéis la página #ScienceMediaCentre, es un medio donde preguntan a expertos con toda la certificación posible sobre temas de actualidad científica. Suele ser muy fiable y servir de contrapeso a las noticias sensacionalistas. Por cada noticia suelen tener comentarios de 2-3 personas.

Sobre las causas del apagón, son claros: no se sabe aún y hay que hacer autopsia de los datos. https://sciencemediacentre.es/que-se-sabe-del-papel-de-las-energias-renovables-en-el-apagon-de-la-peninsula-iberica

By David Tuller, DrPH

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Last week, Guardian columnist George Monbiot wrote another scathing piece about the failure of the UK health care system to address the plight of people diagnosed with ME/CFS. (Monbiot’s previous column on the issue appeared in March; our interview about it is here.) The new column was pegged to the case of 27-year-old Maeve Boothby O’Neill, whose death in 2021 from complications of severe disease has received extensive media coverage in the UK (if not, unfortunately, in the US).

But Monbiot’s main focus in this column was the sorry history of London’s Science Media Centre in promoting egregiously flawed studies about the illness. The SMC, a PR agency masquerading as a purportedly neutral arbiter of scientific research, has been on Monbiot’s radar for decades. Yesterday, Monbiot and I discussed some of the issues he addressed in the column, including what he has referred to as the “cruel and bizarre cult” that has controlled it since its inception. (Because of a time lag on the zoom call, in a couple of places we seem to be talking over each other.)

https://trialbyerror.org/2024/10/25/guardian-columnist-george-monbiot-on-the-bizarre-cult-at-the-london-based-science-media-centre/

#Guardian #monbiot #scienceMediaCentre