The danger of scientific stupidity
BY:Matteo Martini Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - Gomez-Davila, a Colombian philosopher and aphorist, wrote that scientific deceives in three ways: “Transforming its propositions into norms, divulging its results more than its methods, keeping silent about its epistemological limitations”. So let's start from this point: science not only conveys contents and consequently contributes to building a vision of the world, it can also create deceptions, illusions or “perspective errors”. It seems difficult for the average man to get to digest such a statement: the result of a scientific theory is presented to the man on the street, and perceived as…