Thursday at noon, Helena Garcia Melero brought an expert to the Tot es mou table to assess the global economic and geopolitical situation. Right at the start, the presenter activated the emotional framework, attributing to the CSIC researcher, Antonio Turiel, an anxiety visible even before he began to speak: “I greeted you a moment ago and nothing... with a look your worry was evident...”. More than presenting the specialist, she dragged the audience into a state of mind.During his analysis, the scientist, with a very pessimistic tone, recalled the kerosene supply problems and made a prediction: “What comes next is diesel. Then in Europe there will be a diesel supply problem”. The presenter deduced that this would imply traffic rotations according to license plates or teleworking recommendation. Turiel stated emphatically: “This is inevitable. This will happen”. Immediately, a caption on the screen turned it into news: The CSIC researcher's knowledge is surely solid. But working with hypotheses, data, description of trends and scenario planning is one thing, and a very different one is offering absolute truths, announcing inevitable catastrophes and turning personal opinions into prophecies. Because then we turn scientific authority into a kind of oracle. Turiel warned of Europe's problems with electrical stability and drug supply, and announced future wars for resources. Melero asked him: "There's talk of an electroshock... How should we understand that?". And here came the great disaster: "We are heading towards an unprecedented economic crisis. I get angry talking about an economic crisis because they are killing people, eh... [...] and we will kill many more people because one thing that is stalled is fertilizers". And the outlook became even more dramatic: "All the problem with fertilizers guarantees very bad harvests this year. Furthermore, it is a year that could be very hot and, therefore, will complicate everything even more. And then we will be talking about millions of deaths. And I think that is the most worrying thing of all". Melero, startled, agreed with him: "Of course!, of course!". Turiel might be right and everything he says could happen. It's not about doubting him, but about questioning the way he expresses it. He adds an emotional state to the analysis, incorporates opinions about what will happen as irrefutable truths, and uses an assertive deterministic tone ("This is inevitable", "This will happen", "There will be millions of deaths") that, rather than posing hypotheses, announces a fatal and inexorable destiny. He turns all plausible scenarios into a chain of successive misfortunes without room for error. And Melero reinforced the alarmism. Watching "Everything is Moving" it seemed that the enormous complexity of the world was reduced to a simple television prophecy more suited to fortune-tellers than to scientists.

On Monday, in Everything movesHelena Garcia Melero spoke about a controversial anti-obesity measure by the Turkish government. To raise awareness about the adverse effects of being overweight, they stop overweight people on the street, weigh them on scales, and invite them to find a solution to their problem. The reason for the controversy is obvious. Health issues shouldn't be addressed in the street, nor should anyone have the right to question your body at times and places you hadn't planned for. The program itself was clear that it was a dubious initiative, but they still linked it to a street in Barcelona to see if people were willing to weigh themselves on scales right there in front of the cameras. Initially, they tried to do it live, and all the pedestrians except for one young man dodged the journalist's efforts to stop them. No one wanted to have anything to do with it, not just getting on the scale, but standing in front of a microphone. Since the operation failed, they offered us some interviews they had been able to record beforehand. And what we saw was absurd. From the outset, it's worth noting that, as you can see, all the people they managed to get to participate were older, over seventy. This is no coincidence. These people are generally easier to intercept: they move more slowly, have more difficulty resisting and dodging the microphone. For this same reason, they tend to be a more vulnerable group to theft and deception. They also don't dare contradict the authority of the camera or a journalist.