as the world stand today. 10 years after the arab spring. arabella and starts june 7th on d w. this is news live from berlin india's coronavirus crisis as western in the country has recorded more than 4000 cool but that's in the past 24 hours for the 1st time in its gets in true but experts fear things could get much worse and for egypt better also coming up. ties with india on the agenda at an e.u.

summit in portugal but members give you cool reception to leave india box to leave the times right on cue and i'm biased but it seems. that. a list in the hands class what is right here right outside these clubs minds with more than 100 find out what's behind the scenes is fine. i'm eddie michael jr welcome to the program india has reported a new record daily code a virus that stole more than 4000 people have died from covert 19 in the past 24 and once again over 400000 new infections in recorded critics say these official for guest on the count the full extent of the crisis many fear that village just gatherings causing the virus to spread even faster. in some places in

india it is hard to believe the countries and crisis in the southern city of hit are about muslim celebrating the end of ramadan are out shopping some feeling lax about safety rules. before forcing regular citizens to comply with covert $1000.00 guidelines national leaders on lawmakers need to follow health safety measures them selves than the common people will also follow them. i got a public option got to have me. many mosques remain shut over corona bars fears despite the weekend's islamic college days of preparations for the i.e. festival still others ignored official warnings unless people gather for prayer in large numbers. gatherings like these are driving india's 2nd coronavirus wave it has been much more infectious partly due to new variance of the virus as the number of those testing positive surges so does the death count relatives are

desperate to get help for the infected loved ones in time. since this morning i've been trying to get an oxygen cylinder for my father and the government says there is no oxygen shortage but look at the number of people waiting here in 2 hours you will see that the 2 or 3 people believe in tears. burial sites and criminal are overwhelmed many are enough for is to bring the bodies to makeshift cremation sites instead. for now india continues to count its losses to depend demick and more fire and smoke. visa in portugal will focus on relations with india on day 2 of the summit they are set to discuss the dramatic situation there when prime minister there ended up modi. skeptical over us for pozole strongly supported by india to leave ottens right

until the ninety's scenes while some countries favor the e.u. states up familial pulls to push in instead for green top box production council president charles michel says the u.s. must make the 1st move. we don't think. it's the magic bullet for but we already do and did on this topic as soon as a concrete proposal would be put on the table we all agree that we need to do everything we can possible you know the 3 increase if we were in the world production of. let's look at both the european and indiana perspective on this debate we have did have new correspondent bob vessel at the e.u. summit in porto portugal and delhi bureau chief with a with asked. why was the e.u. go along with this u.s. plan on patent rights. because they felt feel that they have been really put on the back foot here and there when warned about this initiative by joe biden and the

u.s. themselves they have not exported a single dose for countries in the 3rd world or developing countries so there is quite some anger underneath the diplomatic formula that you hear here in porto the argument is certainly go open the patents to negotiate that would take probably until the fall or maybe even into the winter it would not help anybody at all in the short run you don't produce is single extra dose effect in time to get to the people who need it so the e.u.'s answer is we are ready to do everything we are ready to help we are ready to sort of transfer knowledge and high tech materials in order to get production going in those countries but we are not really ready to throw out the patents which might then be just snatched up by china and that is the main point and which we got to india for and there is something like emergency

license the e.u. countries really i think to grant one to india for instance as something that is a ready it's in existence before. they already producing at that particular vaccine in india so there is a great willingness to help that but there is not a willingness to be pushed into a measure that then afterwards the european countries couldn't possibly take back ok now i'm retired prime minister government has been arguing for patent waiver how important is this to help in india i get that and i make under control. eddie it is extremely important to get this patent window but not just to control the pandemic because any such waiver would take some time to implement even if it were to get the approval but you have to remember that india along with south africa well the 2 countries are behind this proposal for a patent waiver and it will die for what in the wu last year discussions are still going on at the u.s. president joe biden support for it is

a big lot of victories for the 2 countries in a matter of principle because india is one of the biggest producers of generic drugs affordable drugs which are accessibility to poorer countries for example aids and hiv when that crisis was there so india is a stronger bet than this summit that we are seeing the e.u. india summit which is going on in porto portugal is about much more the prime ministers of the 2 countries put out an op ed a day before the summit and they described this as a defining moment in geopolitics political relations between the 2 sides there is momentum in developing this relationship you talked about just dialogue being there to recalibrate all rebalance the u.s. relationship with the 2 pacific and underlying all of this is another reason why the 2 sides are coming to get and that can be summed up in one word china more times a lot of demand and china's increasing military certain message and they're also

trade issues their investment issues and they have a lot to talk about and even though they disagree on issues like patton's prepared to deepen their relationship and will further ok i mean the mind delhi india as an important party girl thank you. now to some other developments in the pandemic the e.u. has struck a deal with covert $1000.00 would use a biotech pfizer to buy up to $1800000000.00 this for the next few yes well the organization has authorized images use of china's seen the 6th to make the absolute list new york city his plan into a vaccine is to tourist by distributing jobs at times square and not the attractions. tensions are high and low in clashes between israeli police and police young protesters that left more than $150.00 people injured the violence took place in one of the city's most sensitive areas the temple mount to

jerusalem's old town. a mosque lies beyond the so-called green line. 967 and. by possible the vacations in many arab east jerusalem to make juist status. tensions boil over and the area around jerusalem's al aksa mosque descends into chaos. palestinian protesters take aim at israeli police crawling stones bottles and fireworks. officers in riot gear respond with a show of force. their throwing bombs at muslim worshipers to empty a lock some mosque itself by dozens of protesters sustained injuries many to the face and eyes from rubber coated bullets and shrapnel from stun grenades. with nearby emergency rooms filling up fast the palestinian red crescent sets up

a field hospital to treat the wounded. the violence at one of islam's most revered sites erupted after the final friday prayer of ramadan throughout the muslim holy month anger has been building over a bid by jewish settlers to evict palestinians from their homes in east jerusalem. the court case was the focus of friday sermon at al aksa mosque and many worshippers stayed on to protest they were backed by international calls for calm and restraint the united nations warned israel would be violating international law if it approved the evictions we wish to emphasize that east jerusalem remains part of the occupied palestinian. treaty in which international humanitarian law applies the occupying power must respect and cannot confiscate private property in occupied territory. israel supreme court is expected to rule on the evictions on monday both

sides are bracing for more violence because on that same day israel will be marking jerusalem day an annual celebration of its an accession of east jerusalem in 1967. do not use the tiny kramer's in jerusalem and earlier explained what sparked this latest arrest this is a palestinian neighborhood in east jerusalem and you see here behind me the barrier with the police here this is actually rat families are threatened with imminent election by this and claimed by 2 secular organization this decision was postponed from last thursday to monday a grabby expect a decision to be taken so we have seen you know over the past days actually the past 10 days you've seen you know young people many coming together here in this street breaking if talk and then there were protests which were then dispersed by the police the vixen issue is not new here this started almost

a decade ago and eaten goes beyond that with jews organizations claiming the land and the houses and i've talked to some of the families they would be as thrown out of the house now most families are also apparently in court and more families could be addicted than also by august. let's go for some other stories making headlines around the world in mexico city hundreds of protesters got out on friday to demand justice to 25 people killed on monday when it collapsed with 2 trains on it put just as blame the government for ignoring repeated problems with the law. colombia's president even dukie has called for one and to the mosque and to governments to group in the country is due to hold further talks with protest do this at least 26 people have died in the on the rest of them in from over living conditions on the heavy handed from the stock to. a large chinese rockets is

set to plunge through the atmosphere this weekend in a mission that's being closely watched by international experts 21 ton of rockets carried them out of china's future space station the chinese government says most of the degree will burn up on reentry and is very unlikely to smash into the ground but u.s. experts warn that with tension he didn't just yukiko this incineration and it is impossible to pinpoint where it will land until within hours of its viet tree. full to 10 far ahead of the face to be office other european space agency asked them how often spacecraft to return. should see a return to earth. we see usually space debris to earth. every year about $150.00 tons of debris. indeed this is about 75

percent of this isn't. all now this particular event is now and they're very large object you said already $22.00 metric tons did. this would lead to even with his night and. his dream there's only one does that mean for this particular launch this one you go since 1098. is decisive cause to. collapse from a drip. venters have defended the support of the proposed european surviving after europe's governing body threaten them with sanctions yeah the only remaining collapse from the original 12 that have not withdrawn from the scheme on saturday they released a joint statement describing u.s. actions as intolerable they now face disciplinary action meanwhile 6 for many claps acknowledged superleague was

a mistake and i said you would have us punishments by giving up the fight a sense of evil piano revenue for one season. it wasn't good of the news for len after next that documentary manufacturing ignorance was asked why people don't trust science anymore after the break we'll have more news headlines of the top of the hour in the meantime you can get all the leads us news on the web sites dot com we're also on twitter on instagram d w c i m f you might get your joke ready and stay with us. if you feel worried about the plan. to. anneal house will be on the green fence post coast and some leaves clear remains true. join a critique dive into the green transformation for me for you for the class of.

the 21st century human world is insatiable. with a constant demand for more technology more convenience and comfort more products on more shelves a lifestyle that also raises a growing number of issues what exactly is happening in the fields and farms that feed us. and in our medication. hasn't just realisation turned our world toxic. it's an issue of growing global concern. citizens on the streets accuse industry of hiding the truth from us

as the corporations defend and deny how are we to judge. which side is right. so we turned to science asking researchers to be the arbiters of this argument. surely they should know best except that scientists who do step into the fray are then themselves targeted and are subject to influence corruption and infiltration. we're living in a world where there are many people who have a vested interest in fighting information fighting scientific evidence and discrediting even the notion that science could provide the truth about the natural world there are tensions only to. the 1st step is to identify these attacks and then expose the machinations of those trying to stand in the way of knowledge and in that context it's essential for us to understand who these people

are what they do why they do it and how they do it. and we have to understand how it is that the public sometimes participates in the spreading of this deliberate ignorance and so we need to visit this landscape of manufactured ignorance. like most of the developed world northern greece has seen a collapse of b. colonies a phenomenon that's been observed since the 1990 s. it's become a textbook case for the manufacture of confusion and culturally induced ignorance. here too it began with an enigma with experts on able to explain what was happening and why it was a complete mystery. why was so many bees suddenly dying t.v. reports showed beekeepers and complete despair if you go there you will be no i

don't believe. then a suspect was found a new generation of insecticides in our fields. the latest innovation of the agro chemical industry products containing multiple active ingredients every syngenta formulation is the result of years of careful investigation and thorough research by our scientists a coincidence that bees started dying in their millions once these new products were being sprayed on our crops active ingredients which is why very quickly suspicion started phoning in that direction could scientists solve the case. funny how gina has been searching for the truth in research at her bee hives and in the lab and if we scientists with the help of beekeepers must find the answer at least what began as scientific research soon became a game of cat and mouse. normally scientists have the

peace and quiet of their labs to examine data from field studies. the mass death of bees is just one of many pronominal experts have been asked to explain. traditionally science has the role of highlighting natural mechanisms and reaching an explanation for the slightest observable fact. this is how science normally progresses by solving more and more mysteries and in principle our knowledge of the world we live in increases however this fine principle sometimes has a few hiccups. for scientific observers the case of the vanishing bees is emblematic of this with something like the past you should have been able to investigate it by collecting data by fall though the evidence where it's taking it the crux of the idea is that when we find the evidence that tells us what's

happening we tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and we let the chips fall where they may we commit in a way sort of committing to accepting the truth of those findings. but in the case of the bs that truth took a different course. in the early 2000 countless official reports pointed to the toxic effect of even very low doses of munich it annoyed on b.s. and yet 20 years on there is no universally accepted truth no consensus on the link between these pesticides and the disappearance of bees what explains that divergence. you need to be a very shrewd observer to see the whole picture of the moment the big problem appeared there was 4 to 5 times more research into courses not linked to pesticides . or natural pathogens like the sema and different viruses. but also

bad beekeeping practices climate change the loss of habitat not lighting the asian hornets and other invasive species like the small beetles basically research is much more intensive in causes unlink to pesticides than into pesticides themselves . as is shown with a quick search in a scientific study database. as soon as pesticides were suspected there was a dramatic rise in the number of public and private studies focusing on alternative explanations 2010 the veterinary authorities were confused. in the final being pursued. the more studies there were the less beekeepers could make sense of it all it seemed like a paradox until researchers discovered similarities and an older case when you see

a flourishing of new studies emerge in any particular area a little bit ironically it creates the appearance of being dedicated to pursuing the trail but it takes me directly back to the case of big tobacco we. do like that but i can't. go ahead up here in the 1950 s. tobacco still enjoy the image of a completely harmless stimulant too bland. you . grown bored of it ok young but that carefree attitude would not last. business product and trade scientist in december 953 the tobacco industry was in big trouble right researchers have found that painting mice with tar from cigarettes cause cancer. a revelation that sparked an embittered

controversy if. the tobacco companies had a real crisis because they can't contest the evidence and say it's wrong they can just say we don't know and so the winners of all the major cigarette companies got together in new york city for. a meeting subsequently took place at new york's plaza hotel between the bosses of the 7 major manufacturers collectively known as big tobacco. imagine the scene. you know. let's get right to the heart of the matter the meeting would go down in the annals of ignorance as a challenge to every one of us and we're all in this together unified in light of this threat to business the corporations came up with a plan they wanted to scare pay in which they said you know we're aware of this

science we think there are problems with it and this is a matter of deep concern to us. now we are beginning a campaign to spell out that basic point so that no one will be able to get it that if they decided to make a public statement they are pledging aid and assistance to the research effort into all phases of tobacco use and health for this purpose we are stablish ing and joint tobacco industry group the tobacco industry research committee. we're going to take yes. the press publish the declaration tobacco industry to start scientific research. and. believe me friends just feel as if you're smoking pleasure and protect every advantage known to modern science just repealed gives you scientific fact.

class. opening up a center of research on tobacco didn't aim to further the knowledge to produce knowledge that would disapprove established facts. so they were using scientific methods to refute established science. debbi it's really using science against itself the explicit use of science against science i think does represent a kind of watershed to systematically find scientific research in order to undermine science effectively fighting fire with fire that's a watershed moment. so after they decided this how did they operationalize one of the things that tobacco companies funded a lot of that's what i call distracted research. the labs backed by the cigarette manufacturers set up research projects known as special projects or s.p.'s an

entire arsenal geared to diverting scientific findings. they covered lung cancer in nonsmokers for example looking for links to residents working conditions and personal habits. they experimented on rabbits to see a blank cancer might be caused by toxins or viruses. as big tobacco generously financed hundreds of studies. some proved useful such as research into the precursors of cardiovascular disease. but other studies bordered on the absurd such as contact with aig yolk or tomato juice allegedly leading to skin tumors or the link between lung cancer and baldness or even between cancer and the month of birth with march supposedly putting you at greater risk. gently afraid goes and the idea is to say there are only kinds of course if you like what it is to spread ignorance clouding the issue with

a multitude of data is going to. draw. suspicion to other potential culprits is an effective strategy especially as long cancer could be attributed to a combination of factors identifying a range of risk factors and pursuing multiple avenues of research is perfectly normal in science but it can also be extremely handy for creating confusion. it then becomes almost impossible to determine the true guilty party and that's the point that's extremely well understood and that designing a playbook for pretty much every other science denial that. this is a story about tobacco this is a story about acid rain this is a story about the ozone hole it's a story about pesticides this is a story about climate change in the kitchen oh is this feel a contraceptive pills i mean we have now seen this strategy used over and over and

over again. about buying time the same as oddly it's a winning strategy in the case of tobacco it's 70 years already and it's still going. in the case of the dying scientific insights have likewise been deliberately suppressed. with all that's gone on i'd say we've wasted 20 to 30 years. so we're talking about decades of just information and decades of delay. in the meantime the companies are still breaking gobs of money.

but eventually a scientific law i constructed over several decades can start to develop cracks. 40 years after the 1st alerts on tobacco a humble employee in the us turned whistleblower and changed everything. a box of documents was sent to the university of san francisco. professor stanton glantz was in for a surprise that day i made 121994 a box of documents landed in my office for an anonymous source these or internal documents from at the very highest levels of the tobacco industry their senior scientists their senior warriors their senior management their senior public relations people talking very very frankly about what they knew about the dangers of smoking. the documents were an

unexpected treasure trove for the professor. it was like a new world stumbling into a new world takes as the leaked documents increased in number the truth broke and the tobacco bosses were cornered gentlemen the recent disclosures of the documents have shaken my confidence that your companies care about the through these documents suggest possible manipulation of scientific research by industry attorneys if these things are true then you should know that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and will not be. faced with damning evidence the corporations were forced to make decades of secret archives public. the collection of words started out a few 1000 pages is now up around $93000000.00 pages. these

documents are now kept at the university of san francisco archives they contain the details of a massive manipulation of science the tactics deployed the researchers recruited and the sums of money involved among the documents was an internal memo from 1969 that summed up the strategy of the tobacco industry doubters our product since it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the mind of the general public it is all for the means of establishing a controversy. the key strategy is the creation of doubt about science doubt is a perfect weapon it's effective but also premise is because doubt is legitimately part of science in fact it's an essential driver of science we investigate things because we have questions about them because we're curious or because we doubt the existing explanation is adequate so we need doubt in science the word doctor is key

to science we always say science doubts there are 2 types of scientists studies to science where we no longer question that the earth is round all that apples fall at 9.8 meters per 2nd squared galileo measured it and we can measure it again but it won't change the results yet but here there is no doubt down to exists in ongoing science in what we have studied in proposing hypotheses so the strategy of doubt is about saying that established accepted science is still subject to town. so what the tobacco industry did was to take a virtue and turn to advice. the use of scientific method against science itself and spreading skepticism through dissent from ation. but this massive rebel atory documents in turn inspired a new field of study. how many of you before this week knew something about the

history of tobacco yet most people of the old mia rescue's shows her students how to identify the methods used in a story called obstructions of science the discovery of this long history of deception has led to a new field of intellectual study a new academic field and it's called adding a tautology and that means the study of ignorance. and agnes is an unconventional field of study as academics attempt to unravel the mainsprings of our ignorance to look into what we don't know we were laughed at it 1st because people thought it was not academic to study the absence of knowledge to study ignorance but i think people are are laughing a bit less now and starting to be a bit worried because we sense and they realise how pervasive the problem might be . what are the obstacles to knowledge. a question of growing relevance prompting those who study ignorance to find

a public voice. over the course of this talk introduced different ways of thinking about ignorance and particularly this phrase strategic ignorance we're going to ask you to think about example in your own life a strategic ingrid's. individuals a new understanding of ignorance is a managing until now ignorance mental not knowing what we might know one day thanks to research but now we're beginning to see that you can actively produce. the issue now is identifying obstacles to our knowledge things that help the progress of science deliberately or not. perhaps in some cases it's about what we prefer not to know unraveling all that is no mean feat which is why agnew tala ji the study of ignorance needs to progress methodically and it's a fascinating field of inquiry with contributions from psychology sociology history

political science cognitive science computer science network science there are lots of disciplines involved that can help us understand how ignorance is being manufactured and how we can protect ourselves against. is still in its early days and has a lot of ground to make up. the generation of strategic ignorance is being constantly perfected. and to bunking it often means plunging into the details of scientific practice. there's a constant stream of innovations on the market accompanied by a bigger share of scrutiny are they a threat to our health and more importantly what are safe levels that's the big question the one at the heart of a fierce dispute. one

such dispute began in this laboratory one day in 1909 carlos zone in shine and on a soto are both biologists. for years they have been trying to solve the mystery of cellular proliferation in cancer. suddenly before their very eyes some control cells cultivated in a test tube began to multiply for no discernible reason. it was a real. investigation. trying to find out where it came from because that is the 1st you had to do identify what is the source. they reviewed each piece of lab equipment. after 4 months of growing suspense they finally had their culprit. the centrifuge tubes. they contained

a material that should have been inert but wasn't. the plastic additive in question contained and dispersed a substance that acted like the hormone estrogen. were very fine we thought that this was a big deal the question now was what other products might contain the substance. toys disposable bottles food packaging and in all the plastics that end up in the environment and what impact does it have on our organism. the big question is establishing the doses through which the public can be exposed without a major risk to our health and that question really is the mother of all battles the impact of product x. on our health is studied by toxicologists the accepted rule is centuries old it's simple and seemingly makes good sense the effect is proportionate to the quantity consume. it's true for sugar and fats and applies to pretty much any product.

the golden rule of toxicology says the dose makes the poison which by extension means that anything below that level isn't a poison. according to this rule of plastic with the care. mystic's of a hormone that ends up in a baby's mouth shouldn't pose any problem because the quantity of synthetic estrogen ingested is miniscule. true or false this is the crux of the controversy. an experiment was carried out at the university of missouri by research record fred von sol he was the 1st to carry out a controlled experiment on lab animals to try to evaluate the activity of a common plastic called bisphenol a. this as the structure. and estrogenic drug

they are using a sex hormone to make plastic this is insane. professor frederick bansal and his team spent years observing mice exposed to different doses of business being all a to measure traces of the product they explored what happens at the limits of detection using ultra sensitive machines and what they discovered sent shock waves through the scientific community in fact the damage to the reproductive system was occurring at 25000 times below what had been considered a dose that would cause no work we were absolutely shocked. this was huge for several reasons. the most important being that some of these substances can have bigger effects tiny doses than with stronger doses.

and why is that important because regulates re toxicology tests the whole fulness of these molecules at high doses and never tests or extremely rarely tests the hopefulness of these molecules at the tiny doses to which humans are generally exposed. except that at low doses instead of acting like a typical poison bisphenol a is an end to disrupt or it alters our hormones the molecules that regulate among other things our reproductive system even in the tiniest observable doses it can have devastating effects in other words researchers began to come across some barre unexpected relationships between the dose and the effect of a product and this was shaking up the world of toxicologists we were rejecting

their dogma the ecology community have not accepted it and they said we reject this the resistance among toxicologists was understandable it was also convenient for the manufacturers of plastics it's not always that people intentionally want to science some people unwittingly through no fault of their own can a time be pawns in other people's efforts to pretty strategic ignorance. at the same time the plastics industry gives financial backing to alternative studies which its representatives used to defend their simple thesis that low doses cannot be dangerous more than 100 independent studies have shown that real life exposure to be ph is about a 1000 times below the safe intake limit set by you i'm saying one thing and history is saying another and there needed to be explanations of how.

the difference was occurring eager to understand. collected studies published on the subject and as a true agne tala just he set about explaining the disparity in their conclusions during that time i didn't get a lot of sleep and drank a lot of coffee. is conclusion 93 percent of publicly funded studies indicated harmful effects at very low doses of his being in contrast to none of the studies financed by the industry he eventually discovered the primary reason for this difference instead of an outright lie some creative trickery and the private sector lapse they put a lot of time and effort into figuring out how do we do a study that shows no effect.

the 1st step is to find the right test animal model using catalogues of laboratory mice and rats which can be chosen according to their biological parameters. they can be customized to fit the requirements of the relevant experiments and are then dispatched directly to the researchers lab. the industry groups were using a very strange animal to try to show that bisphenol a cause or if you are interested the showing that between early is not. you would select. in which bisphenol a does not become minister jinnie. so you have to be very careful about the more than you choose because you can choose their own model and you can choose their own model because you don't know or you can choose the model because you know too well how can you do this. test rats tailor made to manipulate

the results and prove the innocence of bisping all a another successful trick by the illusionists of science. so the most insidious offensives are hidden in the details. research protocols for example that outline the planning of a study and are delicately put in place. it only takes one corrupted protocol or a broken rule to stall scientific progress. what's at stake here is evidence based policy making whether a policy is faced on the best available evidence over the policy is designed to satisfy a particular industry in their pursuit of profit. the manufacturers a big difference have a target a democratically elected politicians who can decide whether a suspect product is banned or authorized. or need. to

see. the moment we give up on evidence based policymaking we've given up on democracy. they won't. see some. in 2010 the french parliament outlawed the guilty baby bottles but the ban was limited to this one single and a current disruptor present in one single product sold in one single country a small victory 20 years after the 1st alarm bells rang. a serious public health issue therefore continues to be covered up. among the population we're seeing a sharp increase in metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes hormone sensitive cancers neuro behavioral disorders and infertility in this proliferation of symptoms and a current disruptors are the prime suspects due to our exposure to them

nevertheless the defenders of the plastics industry continue to sow doubt. the presence of a chemical in your body is not as harmful any more such affirmations are spread on the internet ready. yes the creators say. the internet is host to a great many organizations with no apparent links to industry that tell us about everything from this being all way and energy sources to the disappearance of bees the climate food supplements animal welfare and fracking. online made to measure science is rampant. and the target on this front is the general public us and our opinions these days we can weigh in with the click of a mouse on everything from pro or anti diesel homeopathy or baiting we click on like

we tweet or re tweet this is now public opinion anonymous yet global social networks seem to be the ideal form for dissent from ation. global opinion making as among the issues being monitored inside this building in paris. since i was there the complex systems institute brings together mathematicians i.t. experts and data specialists. they develop tools to analyze the my. lead waters of social networks. shift over 3 months shuffle larry os and his teams analyzed 20000000 posts on the climate that originated on twitter before spreading across the globe disappear so who is talking to home and how do the climate skeptics and their adversaries

compete for this virtual space. the team have put together a system that can visualize this sprawling controversy another you're going to go each dot represents one person a line between 2 people means that one of them has shared the other's post the more we forward posts the closer the dots get to plus it is all 12 inch include you can look right thanks to the program the dispute over the world's biggest scientific debate becomes apparent we have all the twitter accounts that form the community of climate skeptics you can see that this community is very distinct in terms of sharing the information from the other community made up of those who agree on the climate consensus that's 140000 accounts that's a lot of people once the debate is rendered observable and you know what can we conclude. on the skeptic side the core is always active these people never stop tweeting there are fewer of them but they're more active which means they're trying to counterbalance the bait exactly that overactive some accounts have 100200000

tweets in 10 years that's incredible so this is how they colonizing twitter it's crazy. a solid core spreading their arguments on an astronomical scale a powerful asset for the climate skeptics and this battle for territory enough to keep their community alive despite the growing evidence is before me. tippett community warming is interest but a pact of human kind. this consensus however does not impose itself on the web. we see the very regularly scientific facts prove the climate skeptics theory is wrong said which is potentially dangerous for this community because they can lose members over it it also there's a kind of in a not guilty of reaction good for 2 or 3 days they'll inundate the social networks

with alternative facts don't keep their visibility in a globalized environment and suddenly without social networks communities of this size wouldn't be able to survive the facts which so clearly disprove their beliefs or those. conspiracy theories abound on all manner of scientific subjects with bloggers free to propound their own theories. the coronavirus a bio bioengineered virus contains nano particles that can be activated on a time based arrangement by 5. 1000000000 in the bucket you know. said to me they can get the organ easy reclaim buffing many things and we have a cure they just don't want to give it out. amid all the rumors and counter rumors some call out a scientific conspiracy and are themselves called out fake news. share this is you

watch you do it. on social media it's one side against the other you see there. are these online arguments supplanting the patient and meticulous approach of science has it become to each their own truth will measure you know if i think it will. drop it we have gravity that's not a matter of. whatever our beliefs we can't ignore reality the victims of climate change. the victims of particulates pollution. or those of infectious diseases where people are no longer vaccinated. they are all a grave reminder that ignoring scientific truths as a human cost in the end the facts do tend to prevail.

and despite the hurdles to progress our knowledge increases gradually building up in one way or another through the ages. a few centuries ago you had to be a mad person to go against common belief and state that the sun and stars don't turn around us but that the earth turns round and round like a spinning top those who champion this inconvenient truth pay dearly in europe the works of copernicus were banned galileo was sentenced to house arrest for life their research posed a threat to established beliefs. another time another setting what makes the world go around today is the economy. when the law of the market replaces that of the church what new limits will be imposed on science. will this new confrontation decide which research is accepted. of course there are cases

of researchers being caught in a conflict of interests a scientist who ceases to remain objective because they're influenced by financial backers but the grip of the economy on science far outweighs these individual cases . what impact the market has on research can only be gauged if we look at the bigger picture. of the current framework within which science is done hugely influences which science we do the market economy frame science in a way that the i'll use in science that can be monetized that is lucrative. researchers have to generate money and to find it and so science is turned into a marketplace where everyone is trying to attract attention.

so. basically computing value out to highlight their specificity is really in come up with fashionable keywords. in the early 2000 is the magic word genomic he said you have to genomes which would vastly influence medicine you will given millions of dollars. and do some research of 1000 the research on how to use the word jew nomic in 2010 it was nanotechnology 2020 it's all to official intelligence . i think you're ready to let all be still current competition is pointing science in a certain direction that you have rated one rule my artificial intelligence. this is too cool i can walk away and in the meantime there are a whole host of unknown feel as sense of science and clash i. deemed less

fashionable or less profitable in the short term. certain scientific fields have been deserted. some researchers have identified what they call the problem of and done science now that science simply last uninvestigated because there's little commercial imperative in being an. undone science science that simply isn't done. the experiment never carried out the lab that never opened. the epidemiological study that doesn't exist because it was never financed. the scientific books never written the medical theses never published these are the vast territories of ignorance which we don't explore because they're not profitable because we prefer not to know. or because we never

even imagined them. our thirst for knowledge is limitless and our wonder at science unabated. but science is under threat of virus spreading and scientific denial spreading with it could mean one thing is not an issue it's not that we know and it's not an issue for many doctors who has controversies multiply they cloud our understanding. don't close to us who killed us have collaborate there are now scientists beating back the tide of ignorance there are still only a few but for us the general public they are a new force we can count on their developing tools and methods to shed light on

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