{"id":10232,"date":"2011-11-06T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2011-11-06T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T08:00:42","slug":"method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10232","title":{"rendered":"Method Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/nov\/04\/bad-science-eight-years\">What eight years of writing the Bad Science column have taught me<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Science isn&#8217;t about authority, or white coats, it&#8217;s about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis. Anyone blurring these lines is iffy.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict of interest stories \u2013 where someone has a vested interest in the results of their study \u2013 are important, because they tell you when there&#8217;s a risk that something&#8217;s wrong in a piece of science. But this is only motive: the gruesome, fascinating mechanism of a crime against science \u2013 the methodological flaws \u2013 that&#8217;s where the action is. People who don&#8217;t really understand science can only critique it in terms of motive. Let them have that; we&#8217;ll do the details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What eight years of writing the Bad Science column have taught me Science isn&#8217;t about authority, or white coats, it&#8217;s about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10232\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}