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The orgasmic meditation practice is carried out with a partner. One person lies down, unclothed from the waist down, while their partner sits next to them. The one who sits uses his index finger slowly to caress the other’s clitoris and genitals . Normally, this safe sex involves the use of gloves. The session lasts … Read more

One can argue long and wide about the inconvenience of relying on pseudosciences, but the most important points could be summarized in four maxims that we offer you below . Obviously, when we say not to trust pseudosciences, it should not be interpreted that the particular approaches of a certain pseudoscience do not end up … Read more

Sometimes it seems that we have forgotten what it was like to live without penicillin. No vaccines of any kind. We also seem to have forgotten that not long ago 15% of women died in childbirth . That, until recently, it was believed that certain plants can effectively cure cancer (although in some countries such … Read more

Often times, when a person who defends a holistic view of the world or who criticizes that science is shortsighted, squared off and refractory to accept pseudosciences, the criticism is often confused: the scientist is attacked instead of the science . Science is a tool for exploration and verification of facts, and depending on the … Read more

Despite the fact that it is relatively easy to identify a pseudoscience, there are still many people who trust them or who, in any case, consider it appropriate to investigate them thoroughly to see if they really are a pseudoscience or not . In the meantime, we have the list of shame in effect, and … Read more

Plato’s allegory of the cave is a simple allegory of pedagogical-philosophical intentions that, nevertheless, has always been very effective for me to silver a certain very little intuitive blindness: not so much the blindness of the ignorant, but of the one who believes himself enlightened with wisdom eternal, indisputable and not open to criticism. According … Read more

One of the Spanish science fiction novels that I most enjoyed in its day was La locura de Dios , by Juan Miguel Aguilera , in which Ramón Llull carried out an expedition in search of the Kingdom of Preste Juan. The most interesting thing about the work is, undoubtedly, Llull’s scientific vision in a … Read more

The other day, reading those xkcd comic strips that are like synthetic and minimalist advanced classes to learn to think while you laugh (like many chapters of South Park, between expletive and expletive it has more chicha than many philosophy books), reading xkcd i mean i came across a strip to explain how people often … Read more

If you manage to get a few million kilometers away from Earth , until it is just a pale blue dot surrounded by millions of galaxies, you take perspective, and ask yourself: why do people attach so much importance to ideas and customs when they are only trifles in a incomprehensible universe? Why so much … Read more

As a child, ten or twelve years old, I saw the first glimpses of reality through the lenses of science. I was not like Francis Bacon , I did not even come out of Plato’s cave. I just watched UFO debates on television that my father would sometimes put on. In these debates, everyone seemed … Read more

I’ve read about telepathy, ESP, astrology, the Bermuda triangle, spirits, dowsers, and the Nostradamus prophecies. I have studied the manuscripts of the Pope of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard , the keys to the structure of galaxies in the energy of human orgasms by Wilhelm Reich, the electrical creation of microscopic insects with salts by Andrew … Read more

There are simple ideas, although their substrate is tremendously complex, that are often lost through the sink of memory, of daily chores, of zombie inertia. They are ideas that deserve, in my opinion, to be remembered. So if I have the opportunity, I would like to stamp them on a t-shirt . But not in … Read more

Often, when I debate with someone about ideas that I consider radically false or unproven (such as the horoscope or homeopathy) I forget to warn the interlocutor that they are all opinions, mine and theirs, albeit with nuances. I have many opinions. I am human, my brain is human. I harbor feelings, hunches, biases, idiocies … Read more

Can you imagine that in a judicial process a ghost was accused of being responsible for a crime? That an entity from the other world was a legal alibi? This is not the plot of Ghostbusters , but something that, until recently, was real. In a date like 1691, Judge William Stoughton , an important … Read more

When we form our opinion on any subject or generate our unquestionable beliefs, we often stumble into the same mistakes. In reality, these errors could be summed up in four . They are four errors that were shelled in 1267 by the English philosopher and friar Roger Bacon in a book that dealt with many … Read more

I read in Magonia that the Collegiate Medical Organization (OMC) has denounced to the Ministry of Health an advertisement about cancer published by the Discovery DSalud magazine according to which "millions of people die every year from cancer because chemotherapy and radiotherapy does not work! ", among other unscientific claims. It is not the first … Read more

There is an anecdote attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace , a mathematician who defended strong determinism, who published the first two of his Mécanique céleste inspired by the work of Newton , providing mathematical tools to determine the movements and positions of all bodies in the solar system, at any time, past, present or future. That … Read more

The next time someone argues that beliefs are respectable (when what people are respectable are) and that everyone can believe whatever they want, no matter how irrational, no matter how tricky it is for mainstream science, and that everything this is innocuous, you have to remind him that, for example, quackery kills more than crimes … Read more

The great difference between science and beliefs is that, among beliefs, dogma can survive and can even be aspired to as a method of finding security: science, the method for improvement consists in destroying affirmations and beliefs: even those better argued are demolished if better ones are found. So, perhaps, if you like science, you … Read more

The horoscope, which bases its theory on the never-proven idea that the stars influence our character or the future of our lives, is still a hoax. However, is there evidence that the Moon could indeed influence menstruation in women? Selenite influence When we are born, the gravitational force of the doctor is 400,000 times greater … Read more

Public opinion is a dregs (said in fine) and the courts have no idea of ​​science. That is the first thing that comes to mind when we read the news that an Italian court recognizes that a man suffered a brain tumor due to excessive use of his mobile phone . Evidence for this causal … Read more

Those who, instead of assuming their gaps of ignorance, raising their shoulders and admitting "I don’t know", strive to explain everything to reduce their level of uncomfortable uncertainty , tend to fill such gaps with mythological explanations or by making use of some discovery difficult to understand. This trend has led, for example, to the … Read more