In this episode of Convergent Dialogues, Tiago Sigorelho, editorial director of Gerador, sits down with Jorge Buescu, a mathematician recently awarded the 2024 Ciência Viva Grand Prize.
The conversation continued to expand on the risks of scientific misinformation, the implications of artificial intelligence and the importance of mathematics in our daily lives (did you know that there is mathematics in your WhatsApp messages?).
The mathematician also tells us about the creative way he used 10 years ago to expose fraudulent scientific publishers that, according to him, “appeared like mushrooms”, continuing to prosper to this day.
Under the alter ego Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ucseub (Buescu in reverse), he invented a pseudo-scientific article and submitted it to several open access journals. Despite having no scientific validity, the publication was eventually accepted and would have gone ahead, provided payment was made.
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Convergent Dialogues is the podcast of Gerador and the live science where scientific rigor and passion for journalism come together. In each episode, a scientist and a journalist join the conversation to reflect on the frontiers of human knowledge and better understand the world we live in.
