The129th KARC Colloquium

The129th KARC Colloquium was ended. Thank you for the participation.

Date&Time	26 July 2018(Thu) 13:30-15:00
Place	Conference Room, 3F, Research Building 2, Advanced ICT Research Institute
Lecturer	The era of pseudo-science
Speaker	Moto Yoshihara Memory Neurobiology Project
Abstract	Biology is now in danger. It is even more dangerous because few people are aware of the danger. Framework of thinking is sometimes difficult to critically examine by human’s brain. “Necessary and sufficient” is technical terms in formal logic, meaning “equivalent”. Some biologists have started to use the terms in a wrong way to exaggerate importance of their works. In these two decades the pseudo-logic has spread while many people admit its use by taking it as a biology-specific “logic” and did not think it as more than semantics. However, the pseudo- logic has ruined framework of thinking frequently, and has opened chances to generate uncountable pseudo-sciences appearing on top journals. We have recently pointed out this serious issue1, and a large response to our commentary made Nature office to give an alert in the journal2. I am going to discuss how harmful the pseudo-logic is by explaining structure of pseudo-science together with the historical background. 1, Yoshihara and Yoshihara (2018) Journal of Neurogenetics 32, 53-64 2. Nature Editorial (2018) 558, 162 (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05418-0)
Language	Japanese
Admission	Free