{"id":1530,"date":"2009-02-17T12:27:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2009-02-17T12:27:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:27:26","slug":"not-believing-in-thermal-conduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1530","title":{"rendered":"Not Believing in Thermal Conduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/02\/dismaying.html\">Dismaying<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]f someone tells you that they &#8220;don&#8217;t believe in&#8221; thermal conduction, it&#8217;s likely that they&#8217;re not so much saying they deny its existence as that they don&#8217;t understand what you mean when you say &#8220;thermal conduction.&#8221; For all their supposed disbelief, after all, they still avoid sitting on metal park benches in the winter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Use of &#8220;belief&#8221; is a standard equivocation tactic.  Any poll that asks about belief in a theory is fatally flawed, but then, I think most polls are a sham, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dismaying [I]f someone tells you that they &#8220;don&#8217;t believe in&#8221; thermal conduction, it&#8217;s likely that they&#8217;re not so much saying they deny its existence as that they don&#8217;t understand what you mean when you say &#8220;thermal conduction.&#8221; For all their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1530\">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":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","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=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}