{"id":11901,"date":"2012-06-18T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11901"},"modified":"2012-06-18T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:00:26","slug":"are-we-our-own-worst-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11901","title":{"rendered":"Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/06\/opinion-scientist-stereotype\/\">Why the Scientist Stereotype Is Bad for Everyone, Especially Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To many \u2013 too many \u2013 science is something like North Korea. Not only is it impossible to read or understand anything that comes out of that place, there are so many cultural differences that it\u2019s barely worth trying. It\u2019s easier just to let them get on with their lives while you get on with yours; as long as they don\u2019t take our jobs or attack our way of life, we\u2019ll leave them in peace.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s very frustrating to scientists, who often bemoan the lack of public interest in what science has to say. They\u2019re right to be frustrated: all our futures are dependent on proper engagement with science. So, how to solve this problem?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing to which I object is the charge that we did this to ourselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he problem doesn\u2019t lie with the science. It lies with the scientists. Or rather the myth the scientists have created around themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author makes several good points in the article, but never backs this one up.  Which would have been nice, because I don&#8217;t see it as being true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Scientist Stereotype Is Bad for Everyone, Especially Kids To many \u2013 too many \u2013 science is something like North Korea. Not only is it impossible to read or understand anything that comes out of that place, there are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11901\">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":[34,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-really-science-at-all","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901","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=11901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}