It's Halloween season! Time to get some ghostly content in the newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ham-radio-...

Parece que, mais uma vez, chegou a hora de relembrar que o método científico existe por uma razão e é muito mais do que um mero detalhe revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...

One year on Substack! To celebrate, I'm resharing some older posts... Starting with this one. open.substack.com/pub/carlosor...

Good intentions and post-colonial guilt are muddying the waters of clear thinking. In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/is-traditi...

Já que a grande imprensa voltou a falar de Ratanabá, a cidade perdida do samba do ET doido, republico o artigo que escrevi a respeito anos atrás... revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/apocalipse-n...

The obsession with the purported characteristics of different "generations" is nothing more than ageist astrology. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/stop-this-...

Sometimes, more important than the substance of what someone says is the when, the how, the where, and to what audience. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/stochastic...

People who try to use sci-fi analogies to think about the future of Artificial Intelligence usually go for the wrong examples. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ai-wont-ki...

"Explanations" are a dime a dozen. Proper scientific explanations, however, are much harder to come by -- and more precious. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-an...

Bolsonaro is on trial for his attempted coup. What about his crimes against Humanity? In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/death-tria...

The "we should have let them achieve herd immunity" misbegotten monster rears its ugly head once more. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/lets-see-w...

Presenting scientific facts and discoveries as awesome should never be the end goal in itself. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-volcan...

"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean what your boss thinks, and neither does quantum uncertainty mean that you should take a more (or less) relaxed view of life. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-fa...

Dedicating every minute of your life to pseudoscientific BS so you can have more minutes of life sounds so silly... Right? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/who-wants-...

Did anyone ever ask people who really study folklore for a living what they think of all that stuff about "archetypes" and whatever? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-pseudo...

The infamous "Monkey Trial" of Tennessee is 100 years old. What lessons does it have for today? In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/a-hundred-...

From the 18th century forward, pseudoscience and occultism have grown quite fond of each other. In this week's newsletter! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-scient...

o Derrite podia pôr uma placa na Secretaria se Segurança Pública, “estamos há 0 dias sem atrocidades cometidas por PM”

Now, this is interesting... The Big Beautiful Bill will kill one profession economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

If you look hard enough, you can always find "suggestive evidence" for any correlation imaginable. But do you think this means anything? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/causes-in-...

Certainty is always an illusion, and science is the only human activity that will tell you the whole truth about it. . carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-is...

Há algum tempo, escrevi sobre como o modelo de negócio das redes sociais, de egajamento a qualquer custo, estimula extremismos e ódio. Com a decisão recente do STF, resolvi atualizar o artigo e traduzi-lo para o português. Está aqui: revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...

Even progressives now yearn for a lost utopian past that never existed. What is going on? In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-nostal...

People who buy curses and spells online for US$ 7.99 are not so different from corporate types who rant against "negativity" or from some very "sophisticated" intellectuals. In the week's newsletter! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-unbear...

How should journalistic standards adapt to ever-increasing populism and malicious exploitation of the principles of "objectivity" and "listening to all sides?" The debate is decades old already, with no conclusion in sight. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/good-night...

The HBO movie "The Mountainhead" captures the growth and dissemination of a form of Silicon Valley tech esotericism. In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/uploading-...

To talk about policy-relevant science in an environment saturated with intellectual dishonesty is to get involved in an ever-losing arms race. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-scienc...

This 300-year-old debate got very hot quite suddenly. In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/and-what-a...

In today's newsletter: between performative neutrality and shameless partisanship, how can journalism stay faithful to its mission? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/how-journa...

"If you’re looking for identity grievance, ethnic consciousness, and tribal striving, Buchanan has 400 pages of it. His core argument is that white people should band together to hold off the rising tide of nonwhite people who threaten to outnumber them". www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The intellectual forefathers of the contemporary world planted the seeds of a paranoid mentality. It's time to break away from it. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-exhaus...

Conspiracies and miracle narratives "wear an appearance of explanation, but serve to seal off the evidence rather than engage it, to vindicate, reassure, please, or entertain rather than enlighten". carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-kinshi...

Fanatics are extremely rational: they just proceed from false premises. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-irrati...

@estadao.com.br publicando press-release de Deepak Chopra na maior cara-dura. Podia pelo menos lembrar que Chopra é exemplo canônico de falação de merda (bullshit) na literatura acadêmica. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

To be a contrarian may make you look smart, but do looks always reflect reality? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-contra...

Those who pretend not to know are the greatest enablers of evil. In today's newsletter! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-sin-of...

The halo of sanctity and goodliness around the word "natural" is deeply misleading. In the newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/nature-isn...

Na hora de decidir qual prática "integrativa e complementar" vai entrar para o rol do SUS, o que conta é a força do lobby, não a ciência: o caso das práticas afro-brasileiras na cidade do Rio. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...

Ridiculous isn't the same as harmless. Lessons from history in this week's newsletter! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/dont-under...

Resultados de pesquisa pouco expressivos vêm sendo distorcidos e usados como arma retórica por grupos inconformados com a condução da pandemia. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...

The best predictions and prophecies are useless to everyone but the prophet who makes them. In the newsletter of the week! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/on-the-use...

Quando um estudo ou uma manchete aparecem dizendo que "espiritualidade" é bom para você, o que eles querem dizer não é o que você entende por "espiritualidade". É outra coisa. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...

The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist

É surreal a punição pelo golpe ser mais séria do que a pelo massacre

Populists paint scientists as clever rhetoricians who use complicated language to obfuscate the obvious — the “obvious” being anything the majority is comfortable with. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-en...

How to be an antivaxer in practice while trying not to sound like one in theory: the Health Secretary and the Texas measles epidemic. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/antivaxer-...

Another attempt to identify Jack the Ripper bites the dust. What Ripperology can teach us about the scientific method?https://carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ripper-retracted

"Brazil has demonstrated how democracies that value themselves defend themselves," Quico Toro writes. "America could have done the same."

Muitas pessoas escreveram pedindo comentário do estudo que vem sendo trombetado na mídia como da "genética da mediunidade". Eu e o Prof. Marcelo Takeshi Yamashita finalmente escrevemos algo a respeito. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...

Today is Substack day, folks! This week, it's about superstition and erratic rulership, with historical examples. open.substack.com/pub/carlosor...