{"id":1267,"date":"2009-01-26T04:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T09:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-01-26T04:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T09:58:45","slug":"free-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1267","title":{"rendered":"Free the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/davegray\/sets\/72157612691100488\/\">Free the Facts<\/a>  A Flickr set by Dave Gray<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facts are an important element of any decision-making process. A fact asserts that something is the case. When we as a society make decisions that affect our future, facts, and conversation or argument about what they mean, is a critical part of those decisions.<\/p>\n<p>But what is a fact, and how do we know that something is a fact? Is there a &#8220;keeper of the facts?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This little thread is an exploration of facts: What they are, how they come to be, who has access to them and why. It&#8217;s especially focused on the facts that make up the sum of our scientific knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swissmiss.typepad.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/free-the-facts-.html\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free the Facts A Flickr set by Dave Gray Facts are an important element of any decision-making process. A fact asserts that something is the case. When we as a society make decisions that affect our future, facts, and conversation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1267\">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":[46],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general","tag-open-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}