The month of October 2023 brings the “SKEPSIS” series to the UB community, a project aimed at the public and in which UB researchers analyze, from a sociological point of view, scientific truth and skepticism regarding some of the most controversial topics of the moment. The series will explore the deep structures that influence the ways we look and act when our health, identity, or future is at stake.
The guests of this series, intended to explain the evolution of skepticism on current topics, are professors, PhD students and researchers from the academic community of the University of Bucharest.
Materials in the “SKEPSIS” series will include short and dynamic presentations of topics relevant to contemporary society: vaccination, global warming, artificial intelligence and others.
The format of the episodes includes the presentation of the topic, followed by a dialogue between the moderator and the guest.
Confidence in homeopathic practice
The first “SKEPSIS” episode has as guests prof. Cosima Rughiniș, PhD, teaching staff at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University of Bucharest, and Dragoș Obreja, PhD, doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Sociology of UB.
Starting from the popularity that homeopathy has gained among people all over the world as a natural alternative to traditional medicine, in the first this episode, prof. Cosima Rughiniș discusses, together with Dragoș Obreja, about the aspects that are the basis of trust or distrust in this practice.
Even though homeopathy has been the subject of intense debate in recent decades, sufferers sometimes choose to trust it. In this episode we’ll find out where the skepticism and optimism about homeopathy has its roots.
Also, prof. Cosima Rughiniș will explain the causes of people’s trust in homeopathic practices and the characteristics that have transformed this practice into a persistent social phenomenon.
The first episode “SKEPSIS” can be accessed here.
The video materials in this series are produced by the Communication and Public Relations Department of UB, and the research results are part of the project “SKEPSIS – Manufacturing uncertainties regarding vaccination and climate change. Comparative study of legitimation in two counter-scientific discourses”, implemented in the University of Bucharest and funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Research and Digitalization, Romania, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1589.
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Postări asemănătoare:
The University of Bucharest launches the UB Dose of Science with a presentation on vaccination and skepticism, by prof. Cosima Rughiniș
The University of Bucharest launches the series “Microscope: UB Researcher at the Microphone” with prof. Beatrice Radu, PhD, co-author of an important international patent
