{"id":11325,"date":"2012-03-24T05:38:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T10:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11325"},"modified":"2012-03-24T05:38:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T10:38:24","slug":"a-conjuror-makes-a-great-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11325","title":{"rendered":"A Conjuror Makes a Great Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/03\/opinion-randi-magic-scientists\/\">Why Magicians Are a Scientist\u2019s Best Friend<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]t is long overdue that my peers in the conjuring profession try to take a more active role in the elimination of nonsense science by joining forces with scientists, and that scientists be open to the proposition.<\/p>\n<p>Please bear with me while I offer you a peek behind the curtain, a cursory glance at what we magicians are \u2014 and aren\u2019t. First, we\u2019re entertainers, actors, showbiz people who have as our primary objective the delight of our audiences. We\u2019re deceivers, yes, taking on roles and characters to express our art, just as any actor does.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Magicians Are a Scientist\u2019s Best Friend [I]t is long overdue that my peers in the conjuring profession try to take a more active role in the elimination of nonsense science by joining forces with scientists, and that scientists be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11325\">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":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325","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=11325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}