“Vaccines have saved millions of lives. Today, in countries like Spain, diseases such as smallpox, measles, the Black Death or polio have been eradicated by vaccines. And the same thing will happen with Covid, a virus in phase control,” said Dr. Bernardo Herradón García, chemist and member of the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain, at the Ateneo de Almagro, who gave a conference on advances and spread science in Spain.
The president of the Ateneo, José Antonio Prieto, welcomed the speaker, together with the coordinator of the department of the Royal Spanish Academies, Francisco J. Martínez Carrión. From the beginning of his speech, Herradón spoke out for more support for scientific culture to combat ignorance and raised the need for research plans in Spain “to be less strict.”
Herradón was very controversial against the so-called pseudoscience, fake news and hoaxes about “miraculous” methods to fight diseases and, instead, he emphasized the benefits of science for humanity and the need for methods teach modern science in a more didactic way, such as including workshops in the curricula.
The academic pointed out that science, and especially chemistry, has led to great progress for humanity such as water purification, increasing agricultural production, the generalization of antibiotics or effective vaccines, “they have all saved millions of lives in humanity human”. , for which he emphasized the need to deepen scientific knowledge and its ethical dissemination, to avoid the spread of falsehoods and fake news, which is currently on the rise.
The conference closed with an intense debate between the speaker and the attendees, who raised current issues such as the effectiveness of vaccines against Covid, progress against vaccines in the new Republican administration of the United States or the reasons for there was no Spanish science. in the elite world.
2024-11-16 12:13:00
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