quinta-feira, 17 de dezembro de 2020
Os investigadores que mais contribuíram para manter Portugal no topo
quarta-feira, 16 de dezembro de 2020
A "cultura" da tortura
Programa Governamental "Edifícios Mais Sustentáveis 2020/2021"
terça-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2020
Investigador disponível para se sacrificar por Portugal
Revela hoje
a imprensa que os pilotos da TAP, aqueles senhores que passavam o tempo a fazer
greves, as quais causaram naquela companhia prejuízos de centenas de milhões
de euros, mas
que num gesto heróico de profundo sacrificio, agora que a TAP está praticamente
na falência, revelaram que estão disponíveis para receber somente o mesmo que recebem os pilotos da conhecida companhia
área Alemã Lufthansa.
Eu pessoalmente também estou disponível para me sacrificar duramente pela excelsa pátria Lusitana, aceitando receber unicamente o mesmo valor miserável que recebem os investigadores na Alemanha e nem um cêntimo a mais. Tudo a bem desta grande Nação.
Faz por isso todo o sentido reproduzir novamente as 8 perguntas que apareciam na parte final de um post anterior:
https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/07/corrigir-uma-gravissima-injustica.html
segunda-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2020
Peer Review of scientific articles: Performance of European countries between May and December
Still following the post above see below an update for the performance of European countries between May and December where is possible to confirm the rise of Norway and Poland. There are now 8 countries with a ratio below 1000 papers in the last 12 months while in May the number of those countries was much higher.
This shows that more countries are realizing the importance of dedicating more efforts to peer review activities thus avoiding the label of "cheats" as coined by Professors Owen Petchey and Jeremy Fox https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/0012-9623-91.3.325
https://publons.com/country/?order_by=verified_reviews
Reabilitação de edifícios (construídos entre 1961 e 1980) segundo os requisitos "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings"
https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2020/12/decreto-lei-n-101-d2020portugal-tem-7.html
domingo, 13 de dezembro de 2020
42 anos no combate ao crime e a falsificação de projectos de investigação
O pai da criança, os invertebrados de 20 valores e a dúvida Darwiniana
sábado, 12 de dezembro de 2020
Healthcare performance in 35 OECD countries
sexta-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2020
Ethical reflections on a Canadian scandal: When will Academia take a stand against entrenched "traditions" that bind society to a tribalistic past ?
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De: F. Pacheco Torgal
Enviado: 15 de Fevereiro de 2018 8:05
Assunto: Another relic of the XX century that academia does not need
Competitive sports are just a die-hard relic of the XX century but
the most bizarre thing is that Universities fell into the temptation to please a
rising sports market and as a consequence sports performance has even become a
science worth university status.
Competitive sports are just something that comes from a past of
survival, of competition to the death, of winners and losers, of us versus
them. Of race improvement and eugenics. Of males fighting each other in order
to be able to mate with as many females as possible to pass their
"superior" genes. That´s a narrative that we do not need in the 21st
century. Even Olympic games make no sense in the 21st century because the heroes
(the role models) of this century ought to be those that help Humanity to solve
their many and worrying problems, not those that spend thousands of hours
training in or order to be the human that runs faster, jumps higher or that
throws a heavy object to a longer distance. That´s nothing more than a
meaningless and unsustainable waste of resources.
To make things even worse let´s not forget that for instance sports teams
in the Universities in the US have a long record of scandals including forging the
grades of thousands of students, match-fixing, you name it. The recent
Nassar scandal is a very good example of how a university's reputation can be
tainted by such connections. The simple fact that highly competitive sports are
now more and more associated with the doping industry and the multimillion-rising
match-fixing would be reason enough for universities to avoid such a dark area.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roomykhan/2017/12/31/doping-in-sports-cheating-or-leveling-of-the-playing-field/#42ced36c75ec
If the work of the intellectuals is to transform the unthinkable into plausible it would be a great achievement if academia were able to convince society about how highly competitive sports keep us imprisoned to our tribal past thus preventing the advancement of Humanity towards the type 1 civilization that we need and hope to become.








