{"id":14195,"date":"2013-09-26T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14195"},"modified":"2013-09-26T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T08:00:55","slug":"we-dont-talk-about-what-we-know-we-talk-about-what-we-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14195","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#039;t Talk About What We Know, We Talk About What We Don&#039;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/stuart_firestein_the_pursuit_of_ignorance.html\">Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really liked this talk. The post title is from his discussion of what scientists do at the end of the day at a conference, when they get together for a beer \u2014 they ask questions, and discuss the unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Another paraphrase \u2014 <em>Knowing a lot of stuff doesn&#8217;t make you a scientist. The purpose of knowing stuff is so you can ask questions<\/em>. IOW, the whole purpose of learning a body of knowledge is to be able to define what isn&#8217;t known. Then you can go off and investigate that.<\/p>\n<p>I also liked that even though he&#8217;s in a different field, the talk addressed general issues. There was nothing specific to neuroscience or the life sciences; even though he used examples from neuroscience, the concepts applied to physics (and, I imagine, chemistry). That doesn&#8217;t always happen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance I really liked this talk. The post title is from his discussion of what scientists do at the end of the day at a conference, when they get together for a beer \u2014 they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14195\">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-14195","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\/14195","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=14195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}