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On November 15, Dr. Adolfo García offered a lecture at the Ministry of Education to discuss the role of English in the internationalization of higher education in Argentina. The event was hosted by the British Council and it represented a first step to consolidate an inter-institutional platform fostering international mobility for students, professors, and researchers.

 

The pseudoscience inside science? The case of the neurosciences and the sciences of the conduct

Plataforma de Neurociencias Cognitivas y Ciencias de la Conducta (Penco) de Argentina

 

Science has ceased to be a cryptic language of a few specialists, to become a means of communication, persuasion and argumentation not only of the general public, but of governments, companies and the social imaginary. This explosion and appropriation of scientific language, particularly of the sciences of the mind (neurosciences, behavioral sciences, health) not only represents a great added value, but also new problems. Scientific pseudoscience differs from alchemy or angel therapy, and is generated (perhaps more dangerously) within science. This form of pseudoscience is more novel and is impacting the media as never before. Nowadays, a debate about the pseudoscience in science and its impact on society is indispensable.

 

Schedule

– 17:00 hrs. Registration

– 17: -30 hrs. Introduction to the debate. Agustin Ibanez

– 15: -50 hrs. Mind, health and pseudoscience Daniel Flichtentrei

– 18: -10 hrs. Pseudoscience within the neurosciences and behavioral sciences Debate by Penco members

– 19:10 hrs. Round table: pseudoscience and communication Nora Bar, Alina Meimbre, members of Penco

-19: 30 hrs. Closing

 

Day: December 11, from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

Place: Cultural Center of Science. Godoy Cruz 2270, Buenos Aires.

Organizers: Penco, CONICET, Intramed

Sponsors : INCYT, MELs, CEMIC, Educating the Brain, AUAPsi, AACC, FFyL-UBA, CINA, UdeSA, INCIHUSA

FREE EVENT, Requires prior registration by sending an email to penco.coordinacion@gmail.com

More information about the event: http://www.penco.conicet.gob.ar/

 

 

In the presence of more than 200 people, among whom were authorities, businessmen, scientists, educators and the general public, the PENCO platform was presented.

The purpose of PENCO is to be a space for the articulation of different disciplines dedicated to the study of human cognition. Expanding the dialogue between the research carried out in biological, physical, psychological, philosophical and computational matters, aims to innovate the scientific-technological productions giving them an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary approach. Since 2017, the Platform carries out research that contributes to the understanding of childhood, old age, dementia and violence, among other issues relevant to the application and improvement of social policies.