Carlos Orsi
@carlosorsi.bsky.social
Journalist (science), writer (non-fiction, plus mystery, sf-f, horror), chief editor of https://revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/ posts in English and/or Portuguese.
Substack:
https://carlosorsi.substack.com
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Carlos Orsi
@carlosorsi.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Here's an even prettier page to send readers to, with all of your articles in order, as well as your author profile:
www.skeptic.org.uk/author/carlo...
www.skeptic.org.uk/author/carlo...
Carlos Orsi
Carlos Orsi is a journalist, editor-in-chief of Revista Questão de Ciência, author of "O Livro dos Milagres" (Editora da Unesp), "O Livro da Astrologia" (KDP), "Negacionismo" (Editora de Cultura), and...
www.skeptic.org.uk
So, this is a much better landing page for my content in @skeptic.org.uk !
Ainda sobre o rescaldo da infame edição da BBC para o discurso de Trump: mecanismos retóricos de sinalização de objetividade não podem ser álibis para fugir ao dever de bem informar. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...
Um ponto de vista sobre o jornalismo sem ponto de vista
Mecanismos retóricos de sinalização de objetividade não podem ser álibi para fugir ao dever de bem informar
revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ainda sobre o rescaldo da infame edição da BBC para o discurso de Trump: mecanismos retóricos de sinalização de objetividade não podem ser álibis para fugir ao dever de bem informar. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...
So it seems you can already pre-order my next non-fiction book, "What Science Says About Astrology" (with lots of interesting stuff on history, psychology, and even media criticism), coming next year from Columbia University Press! www.amazon.com/What-Science...
What Science Says About Astrology
What Science Says About Astrology - Kindle edition by Orsi, Carlos. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading What Science Says About Astrology.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So it seems you can already pre-order my next non-fiction book, "What Science Says About Astrology" (with lots of interesting stuff on history, psychology, and even media criticism), coming next year from Columbia University Press! www.amazon.com/What-Science...
Coincidences do happen. To discount them to look "smart" is to fall into one rabbit hole after another. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/why-not-be...
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Coincidences do happen. To discount them to look "smart" is to fall into one rabbit hole after another. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/why-not-be...
The debates over the uses and limits of "objectivity" in journalism easily degenerate into a war of straw men and caricatures. What is really at stake? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/taking-a-h...
Taking a hard look at the view from nowhere
Journalism has to stop pretending that performative objectivity is the real thing
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November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The debates over the uses and limits of "objectivity" in journalism easily degenerate into a war of straw men and caricatures. What is really at stake? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/taking-a-h...
Mistakes of the past can be good case studies to prepare us for the present (and the future). So, how did the creator of Sherlock Holmes come to believe in fairies? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/logic-less...
Logic lessons from fairies
In 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tried to convince the world that fairies were real. His style of argumentation is still very much alive today
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November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Mistakes of the past can be good case studies to prepare us for the present (and the future). So, how did the creator of Sherlock Holmes come to believe in fairies? carlosorsi.substack.com/p/logic-less...
With a new Frankenstein movie streaming worldwide, let's take a look at the genesis of the story that has been called "the first myth of modernity". carlosorsi.substack.com/p/talking-ab...
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With a new Frankenstein movie streaming worldwide, let's take a look at the genesis of the story that has been called "the first myth of modernity". carlosorsi.substack.com/p/talking-ab...
O financiamento coletivo para o lançamento de meus contos de crimes impossíveis, publicados originalmente nos EUA, Inglaterra e Canadá, agora traduzidos para o português por Braulio Tavares, está aberto! https://
catarse.me/estranho
catarse.me/estranho
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
O financiamento coletivo para o lançamento de meus contos de crimes impossíveis, publicados originalmente nos EUA, Inglaterra e Canadá, agora traduzidos para o português por Braulio Tavares, está aberto! https://
catarse.me/estranho
catarse.me/estranho
Strategies and the worldview of political propaganda translate poorly to the world of science communication. We should think twice before embracing them. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/communicat...
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Strategies and the worldview of political propaganda translate poorly to the world of science communication. We should think twice before embracing them. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/communicat...
Lula, Bill Gates e a retórica do "até agora, tudo bem" diante da crise climática. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Lula, Bill Gates e a retórica do "até agora, tudo bem" diante da crise climática. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...
Lula, Bill Gates, and the fallacious "so far, so good" approach to climate change. In this week's newsletter! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-not-th...
The "not the end of the world" fallacy
What doesn't kill us can still be much more than a mere nuisance
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October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Lula, Bill Gates, and the fallacious "so far, so good" approach to climate change. In this week's newsletter! carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-not-th...
Com a ONU anunciando o fracasso da meta de conter o aquecimento global abaixo de 1,5 °C e o governo brasileiro decidido a remover o máximo de carbono do subsolo, recirculo um artigo meu do ano passado. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/apocalipse-n...
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Com a ONU anunciando o fracasso da meta de conter o aquecimento global abaixo de 1,5 °C e o governo brasileiro decidido a remover o máximo de carbono do subsolo, recirculo um artigo meu do ano passado. revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/apocalipse-n...
So now we live in a world where one of the wealthiest and most influential men around takes B-movie mythology seriously... carlosorsi.substack.com/p/antichrist...
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
So now we live in a world where one of the wealthiest and most influential men around takes B-movie mythology seriously... carlosorsi.substack.com/p/antichrist...
It's Halloween season! Time to get some ghostly content in the newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ham-radio-...
Ham radio to the dead
Let's talk about the Spiricom, a device that promised radio contact with the Other Side
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October 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's Halloween season! Time to get some ghostly content in the newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ham-radio-...
Parece que, mais uma vez, chegou a hora de relembrar que o método científico existe por uma razão e é muito mais do que um mero detalhe revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...
Até que ponto "conhecimento tradicional" é conhecimento?
Parece que, mais uma vez, chegou a hora de relembrar que o método científico existe por uma razão e é muito mais do que um mero detalhe
revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Parece que, mais uma vez, chegou a hora de relembrar que o método científico existe por uma razão e é muito mais do que um mero detalhe revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/artigo/2025/...
One year on Substack! To celebrate, I'm resharing some older posts... Starting with this one. open.substack.com/pub/carlosor...
Who wants to rule the weather?
As global warming makes extreme weather more common, conspiracy theories about "climate control" become more and more fashionable
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October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One year on Substack! To celebrate, I'm resharing some older posts... Starting with this one. open.substack.com/pub/carlosor...
Good intentions and post-colonial guilt are muddying the waters of clear thinking. In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/is-traditi...
Is "traditional knowledge" knowledge?
A problem of definition and the quest for what counts as well-justified true belief
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October 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Good intentions and post-colonial guilt are muddying the waters of clear thinking. In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/is-traditi...
Já que a grande imprensa voltou a falar de Ratanabá, a cidade perdida do samba do ET doido, republico o artigo que escrevi a respeito anos atrás... revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/apocalipse-n...
Ratanabá, capital do Brasil
Falsificações do passado histórico e da realidade factual que estão na base do conto da "cidade perdida" são diferentes em grau, mas não em gênero ou espécie, das que vêm de Brasília
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October 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Já que a grande imprensa voltou a falar de Ratanabá, a cidade perdida do samba do ET doido, republico o artigo que escrevi a respeito anos atrás... revistaquestaodeciencia.com.br/apocalipse-n...
The obsession with the purported characteristics of different "generations" is nothing more than ageist astrology. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/stop-this-...
Stop this "generation" label bullshit, please
Categories like Boomer, Gen X, Gen Z, Millennial, etc., are essentially meaningless.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The obsession with the purported characteristics of different "generations" is nothing more than ageist astrology. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/stop-this-...
Sometimes, more important than the substance of what someone says is the when, the how, the where, and to what audience. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/stochastic...
Stochastic terror and Mill's corn-dealer
Debates about freedom of expression online should take into account the the medium sometimes is the message
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September 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Sometimes, more important than the substance of what someone says is the when, the how, the where, and to what audience. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/stochastic...
People who try to use sci-fi analogies to think about the future of Artificial Intelligence usually go for the wrong examples. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ai-wont-ki...
AI won't kill you (unless someone tells it to)
People are too scared of Skynet, but the real model here is HAL 9000
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September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
People who try to use sci-fi analogies to think about the future of Artificial Intelligence usually go for the wrong examples. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/ai-wont-ki...
"Explanations" are a dime a dozen. Proper scientific explanations, however, are much harder to come by -- and more precious. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-an...
Science and the narrative of "just a narrative"
Anyone can explain the world, but to explain it in ways that really work requires something else
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September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Explanations" are a dime a dozen. Proper scientific explanations, however, are much harder to come by -- and more precious. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-an...
Bolsonaro is on trial for his attempted coup. What about his crimes against Humanity? In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/death-tria...
Death, trial, and politics
Jair Bolsonaro is on trial for trying to destroy the Brazilian democracy, but that's the least of his sins
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September 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Bolsonaro is on trial for his attempted coup. What about his crimes against Humanity? In today's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/death-tria...
The "we should have let them achieve herd immunity" misbegotten monster rears its ugly head once more. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/lets-see-w...
Let's see what really failed during COVID
No, Sweden's initial "laissez-faire" approach to COVID-19 wasn't a huge success
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August 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The "we should have let them achieve herd immunity" misbegotten monster rears its ugly head once more. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/lets-see-w...
Presenting scientific facts and discoveries as awesome should never be the end goal in itself. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-volcan...
The volcano and the Big Bang
Awe-inspiring science stories are amazing, but we must be aware of their limitations
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August 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Presenting scientific facts and discoveries as awesome should never be the end goal in itself. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/the-volcan...
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean what your boss thinks, and neither does quantum uncertainty mean that you should take a more (or less) relaxed view of life. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-fa...
Science facts aren't moral allegories
People who try to find "lessons for life" in things like evolutionary theory or quantum physics are missing the point
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August 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Survival of the fittest" doesn't mean what your boss thinks, and neither does quantum uncertainty mean that you should take a more (or less) relaxed view of life. In this week's newsletter. carlosorsi.substack.com/p/science-fa...