{"id":14093,"date":"2013-09-04T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14093"},"modified":"2013-09-04T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:00:07","slug":"i-believe-this-is-a-good-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14093","title":{"rendered":"I Believe This is a Good Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/scied\/2013\/09\/02\/why-i-dont-believe-in-science-and-students-shouldnt-either\/\">Why I don\u2019t believe in science\u2026and students shouldn\u2019t either<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are plenty of other scientists out there that don\u2019t like the use of the word \u201cbelieve.\u201d  Kevin Padian, of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote an open-access article about science and evolution, entitled \u201cCorrecting some common misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media.\u201d He states:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaying that scientists \u2018believe\u2019 their results suggests, falsely, that their acceptance is not based on evidence, but is based somehow on faith.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I don\u2019t believe in science\u2026and students shouldn\u2019t either There are plenty of other scientists out there that don\u2019t like the use of the word \u201cbelieve.\u201d Kevin Padian, of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote an open-access article about science &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14093\">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":[15,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093","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=14093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}