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 co-author of " Pura Picaretagem" (Leya), "Ciência no Cotidiano" (Editora Contexto), for which he was awarded the Jabuti Prize, and “Contra a Realidade" (Papirus 7 Mares).
Based on the now-discredited teachings of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis quickly took on all the trappings of a cult, complete with infallible, abusive leaders
Clichés about a quality being "in our DNA" use the terminology of genetics to depict ideas of essentialism - and in doing so, they reinforce a spurious link
As pseudoscience flourishes in Brazil, What Nonsense! by Carlos Orsi and Natalia Pasternak seeks to redress the balance, and push back against irrationality
