Question: Mário, is there an easy introduction to the kind of research you do?
Answer: If you speak Portuguese, you can watch a general presentation of my work on the foundations of security and privacy here [Part 1/2] [Part 2/2].
This is not all that I do, though. Take a look at my Google Scholar profile to see more.
Question: I am interested in participating in one of your scientific projects, at either the undergraduate or the graduate level. What should I do to get more information about that?
Answer: If you are interested in working on one of my scientific projects, please send contact me so we can set a time to discuss the matter.
Question: How does homeopathy work?
Answer: It’s just a placebo.
Question: I’m a Scorpio and my partner is a Pisces. What does that mean for our relationship?
Answer: Nothing. Astrology is pseudoscience.
Question: Is climate change a hoax? Do vaccines cause autism? Is Earth flat?
Answer: Well, those are three different questions. But the answer to them is “no”, “no”, and “no”.
Question: How can you be so certain about such “controversial” subjects?
Answer: All hypotheses above have been refuted over and over using the scientific method. And the scientific method is the most powerful, reliable way of finding out the truth that humankind has ever developed. Indeed, there is broad consensus about all these matters you mentioned in your previous questions; the “controversy” comes mostly from outside the scientific community.
(An exceptional take on the question of “How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science?” can be found in Carl Sagan’s classic, must-read book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, listed in my section on Books on the popularization of CS, Math, Logics, and Science.)