addition to scientists, although the information has an enormous responsibility on public health.
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Interview with Stefano Montanari
A communicate clearly, consistently and seriously, it is important to ensure that news, good or bad, may essere rese note a tutti. Per quanto riguarda la divulgazione delle problematiche ambientali questo non avviene, o viene fatto con molta superficialità e con poca diffusione sui mass media generalisti. Abbiamo posto alcune domande ad uno scienziato, che a causa proprio di una non comunicazione o a causa di una sbagliata diffusione dei risultati della sua ricerca ha subito una sorta di «bavaglio»
Stefania Petraccone
Una comunicazione chiara, costante e seria è importante per far sì che le notizie, buone o brutte che siano, possano essere rese note a tutti. Per quanto riguarda la divulgazione delle problematiche ambientali questo does not happen, or is done very superficially and with little spread on the media generalists. Newspapers and television in other words, do not give a fair distribution of the events that are now destroying the environment and quality of life.
We had the pleasure of asking some questions to a scientist, that just because a non-disclosure or due to a wrong distribution of the results of his research has undergone a sort of 'gag'.
We are talking about dr. Stefano Montanari, one of the greatest scholars of nanoparticles with his wife, Dr. Antonietta Gatti, since 1997, deals with the effects of ultra-fine man.
The powders are ultra-small, with dimensions equal to nm, which are found in the atmosphere both by natural causes (volcanoes, erosion of rocks, desert sand, etc.). And because of human activities which are also those they put the most harmful particles into the atmosphere. are small enough to go into the deepest parts of the lungs and from there to pass easily into cells in the blood and bodies, creating reactions that are not always easy to find . And in 1997 happened to Dr. Montanari and Dr Gatti to analyze tissues of a patient and noted the presence in those tissues of nanoparticles they had created in the patient effects are difficult to interpret, that only they were able to diagnose with careful analysis, identifying the cause. From there began the so-called life Nanopatologie.
The results of studies by Montanari and cats over the years have led to important results and above all very reassuring with regard to the nanoparticles are released into the atmosphere by burning at high temperatures, as is the case for the combustion of waste, placing these elements in the air are harmful to health and the environment.
An extensive literature on this topic can be found on the Blog Montanari. These results But were not widespread scale.
The first question that we asked to Montanari is on the state of his research on nanoparticles.
Dr. Mountain begins by specifying the scientific importance of his work and that of Dr Gatti, showing "a lack of communication ',' it seems that nobody has informed the Italians that the diseases caused by micro-and nanoparticles, so-called" nanopatologie " we have discovered my wife, Dr. Antonietta Gatti, and I back in 1997. He continues, "Given the state of research in our country, perhaps the result would be enhanced meglio. Ma, in fondo la cosa non ci disturba più di tanto. Da oltre un anno ci troviamo in una situazione a dir poco singolare. Approfittando di una serie di circostanze e per motivi mai spiegati pubblicamente, anzi, cocciutamente taciuti, il comico Beppe Grillo è riuscito a farci togliere il microscopio elettronico indispensabile per la continuazione delle nostre ricerche e, per questo, ci troviamo in difficoltà. Ci occorrono al più presto 400mila euro per riparare al danno e per poter almeno concludere le ricerche già avviate sulle malformazioni fetali da inquinamento. Un articolo scientifico sull'argomento è già in pubblicazione su una rivista internazionale, ma lo studio è tutt'altro che concluso. We are now also a survey around the shooting range of Europe's largest military, the Sardinian Quirra jump, where the cancer is more common than cold. Leave everything would leave thousands without help and without hope. "
Environmental communication and then does not have much resonance in the newspapers and on broadcast TV, except the few programs of inquiry, but few ever to be able to highlight the many problems facing Italy and the rest the world. What do you think of this lack of information, and what suggestions would you give?
" Do not make me go for disasters, but the road to disaster as we have already embarked on a long time. For some decades now, the society has been transformed into a "host" of spoiled children, so tainted by claiming that Nature functions as it suits us. In the last two decades we have poisoned the world much more than we did in the last two million years and, unfortunately, this poisoning is the side effect of giant business. If you read the newspapers and watching TV, it is inevitable cross "scientists" ready to tell enormity solemn failures that would apply to high school students. Their prize money are four or step up the career ladder. So the information is distorted, and when the distortion would be impractical, here is silent . Needless to say, continue to hide the garbage under the rug does not give anything good . Already we have done in the past lying Asbestos, Dioxins, Lead tetraethyl on chlorofluorocarbons, etc. . And I could go on a long list that starts from a recent past and, after losing a few pieces on the street, such as substances that I just said, continues to this day, swelled by a host of other poisons hidden. Food and medicines are not excluded from the catalog. A suggestion? What I always do: we have only a weapon of self-defense, a weapon that costs very little in terms of money but a lot of effort in terms of: knowledge. An ignorant fool is trivial. Become a subject is prepared not only difficult, it is also risky to try. "
That's something that's wrong or surface that is often given on TV or in newspapers is to impoverish even more critical knowledge of these topics, reducing these major issues to minor issues.
you, dr. Mountaineers who wrote much of the damage-causing ultra-fine, but that first person was a 'no notice' of his research, what do you think of this, and what are do you think the motives for the world of information (or rather the non-information) not to disclose certain issues?
"As I mentioned before: there is a lot of money at stake. Take, for example, the topic of waste. "Come in 'rubbish', leaves gold," say coldly pragmatic with the Mafia. making a mockery of chemistry, physics and medicine, and of course, common sense. He is leading a campaign for years of widespread misinformation at all levels, pretending to an audience made artificially more careful in the Sanremo Festival and the Isle of Fame than it is to his health and that of her children that what you burn will disappear and even that task is obtained from energy. In fact, chemistry, physics and medicine, in particular our nanopatologie, are a striking clarity in this regard: incinerators, or "energy plants" as is grotesquely called in Italy, are potential producers of plant diseases, malformations and deaths. If, then, approaches the problem from the point of view of the less noble, and they make a decision right, failure is also evident. Still, Italy has become the land of plenty for this extravagant technology abandoned in America for nearly two decades. All this because we, in contempt the dictates of the European Community, with piles of press who burns waste of money and, with them, you may retain certain personal habits or political not exactly honorable. It's not only the incinerators to be guilty of this. Take, among many possible examples, that of cars . Now it's being forced in any way, even by law, sold as a system for mitigating pollution from diesel engines: the so-called particle filter. If you had the honesty to see it as it should, it is not difficult to see that this system runs the risk of pollution is far more than for engines not equipped with a filter. The reason why the information is lacking, if not entirely absent or, perhaps worse, when it is fake, it has more of a reason behind it. "
What are those reasons?
"One of these is the survival of newspapers and television, as it is related to who pays for advertising. And who pays it is the polluter who pollutes the environment and polluters directly to our bodies: big energy companies, car manufacturers, companies that deal with waste, pharmaceutical companies, food companies. A corollary of the situation we are, still by way of example, those academics that become available to support the safety of installations or devices aggressive health. And, alas, the teachers have the students. You will have noticed that the newspapers and, above all, the TV does not give any space to those who deny a certain fold inferior taken by a certain technology. this context, so hard to externalize, and so rarely brought to light is made under the laws of nature such as, for example, too much ignored the principle of conservation of mass, in a nutshell the famous "nothing is created nor destroyed", and on the basis of irrefutable scientific evidence. This is how it paves the way for the catastrophe that we ourselves seem to want more than anything else in the world. Despite all, however, I remain optimistic. When we are tired of taking beatings, fire a certain way to lead the human society and return to live. Meanwhile, let's get to that point sufficiently full. "
Communication is the foundation of critical knowledge in all fields. Environmental issues need to be addressed very seriously and exposed at the same time with ease, allowing a broad understanding. Only by making a careful and conscientious disclosure can reach more people and create in them a critical and aware. We must hope for a change of course all those who today are part of the a communication vitiated by economic and political interests, driven by interests secondary to the more important interest is the environment and health. But the optimism expressed by Montanari and healthy stubbornness may be the best way to support this "mission" to communicate.
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