The Smoothing Magazine (United Kingdom) recently launched Oakham 2021 Awards You can send your nominations through the visit The site here. I won a prize in 2015 because my blog readers nominated me and this still means a lot to me today.
The skills I learned as part of the skeptical movement in the UK are the value of today as it was ever. I would like to argue more, in fact. The rate of spread of wrong information and failure to social media platforms (for example) to meet this is a great concern due to the effects and real results. From the wrong information of vaccination, and racist discourse, to the anti -gay discourse, it moves freely through social media, and it often seems undoubtedly in the main media. I am concerned about the safety of everyone, especially those in our societies who have a lower opportunity to participate and the lowest social strength that is directly affected by this dangerous dangerous information. Those whose lives are at risk.
In the past, I expressed criticism of the skeptical movement here on this blog and other places as well, but I realized that this is the skeptical movement and those who embrace, embrace and use the values ​​of movement that provides the best opportunity for all of us to combat non -scientific information when and where we see: critical thinking with the open mind, and do not harm the ideas of challenge and lack of challenge.
The movement may attract people who seemed to slow down such values, but in the end, opposite behaviors and themselves are dealing with and enhancing wrong information. These people are not part of the skeptical movement, even those who may in the past have made valuable contributions to skeptical activity. I was mistaken in the belief that these individuals weaken doubts, but I realized that they are already explaining the reason for teaching critical thinking skills and encouraging good skeptical activity is very important – because engaging in the irrational behavior they prove is a very human being and to question your senses and intelligence in intelligence is unnatural for the pattern that seeks all human beings.
The Ockam Award, which is located on the shelf on my computer, is a material point while telling a story; In 2015, my blog readers nominated me because they felt that I showed a good skeptical activity and the Judges Committee agreed. I see it above me when I write and remind me of the importance of supporting these values.
Looking at the scene of the media today and the big issues we are facing all in society, I was thinking long and arduous about who I would nominate it for the Okham Prize. Here I do my nomination:
Spring Mariana
Spring is the BBC’s first specialist correspondent that deals with a kind of dangerous information that I mentioned in this blog post, while exploring the effects it has in our societies. Spring receives horrific abuse on a daily basis to cover it for the effect of fake news, misinformation and conspiracy theories. This led her to The launch of the investigation In how social media respond to the accounts that publish this information, and revealed that in reality it appears that the platforms seem to promote them instead. That is why Mariana Spring receives my candidacy for the Oakham 2021 prize because both of them face misleading information while they also understand the extent of its existence is the vital work and I think this deserves to be recognized by the skeptical movement.
Stonnol
As a member of the LGBT+ community, I am really concerned about a growing alertist TRS at the present time. I am concerned about the safety and rights of a transient society and I am concerned because I am part of the generation that grew up Section 28. I know that the rhetoric used in the demonstration of a transit society is now thinly, which was also used to clarify people like me not long ago. Stonnol campaign to ban the transfer treatment It is still very important in a world that many people still consider by many to be “fixed”. Recently, the British Broadcasting Corporation withdrew from Stonnol.Diversity heroes“The literal plan to make the workplaces more comprehensive for members of the LGBT+ community. This puts a dangerous precedent when I am afraid to be an increasing attack on the rights and freedoms of the LGBT+ community and slide to the dark days of Section 28. Stonnol To obtain the Ockham 2021 Award for continuing pressure on dangerous information, and their fact -based campaigns that seek to defend what he practices most in society, and in a work with solidarity with the organization due to the pressure against science against them from fanatics.
