La ciencia y sus premios

GONZALO CASINO / @gonzalocasino / gcasino@escepticemia.com / www.escepticemia.com Sobre el equivocado Nobel de Ochoa y el reconocimiento de los logros científicos Pocos saben que al español Severo Ochoa le dieron en 1959 un Nobel de Medicina que no se merecía. Este premio se otorgó, de forma inusitadamente rápida, a Arthur Kornberg y a Ochoa “por su descubrimiento de los mecanismos…

2017

7th edition – Palma de Mallorca, December, 12-13 2017

Audiovisual format is becoming increasingly more important both in obtaining resources for research and for scientific dissemination, particularly if it reaches the target public in an attractive, contemporary and understandable way. This new course from Fundación Esteve intends to set the basis on how to communicate scientific projects by recording and editing short, simple and…

2017

44th edition – Bilbao, November 29-30 2017

The 44th edition of these training seminars to provide the basic skills and techniques to write and publish scientific articles in health sciences was held on November 29-30 2017 in collaboration with the Academia de Ciencias Médicas de Bilbao and the Colegio Oficial de Farmacéuticos de Bizkaia. Esteve Fernandez, editor of Gaceta Sanitaria from 2004 to 2010, and Carmen Vives, associate…

Más escépticos leales

GONZALO CASINO / @gonzalocasino / gcasino@escepticemia.com / www.escepticemia.com Sobre la cultura científica y el papel de científicos, comunicadores y periodistas Si hubiera que resumir los problemas que afectan a la comunicación científica en uno solo, este sería la exageración, o hype, como dicen los anglosajones. Mensajes exagerados son todos los que, de forma voluntaria o involuntaria, distorsionan los hallazgos de…

2017

Workshop Soft skills in medical education: The role of medical humanities in the twenty-first century

Medical humanities not only help to understand the real nature of medicine and health, but also enable health professionals to treat their patients with respect and dignity and to provide more empathetic care. In this sense, they have become an essential tool to develop so-called transversal skills in the education environment. The Esteve Foundation organized…

2017