quarta-feira, 1 de julho de 2020

American selfishness, both in the use of masks and in science

https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-economistwearing-masks-is-act-of.html

When the not so much altruistic The Economist urged for wearing masks to tackle the rising of Covid-19 (post above) it forgot the fact that our Planet has a special country that seems to care very little on altruism issues. 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-do-so-many-americans-refuse-to-wear-face-masks-it-may-have-nothing-to-do-with-politics-2020-06-16

And that country does not show its selfishness only in mask wearing but also in science. USA  has a ratio of 633 (Revised papers in the last 12 months /million population) which puts it very far from countries like Portugal that have a ratio of 3500
https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/05/covid-19-has-changed-peer-review.html