{"id":4492,"date":"2009-12-27T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2009-12-27T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T08:00:49","slug":"new-and-improved-now-with-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4492","title":{"rendered":"New and Improved.  Now with Lemon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumanist.com\/humanist\/10_jan_feb\/Galef.html\">Uncertainty in Science: It\u2019s a Feature, Not a Bug<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People tend to think of scientific progress as always advancing in a straight line, with new facts being added permanently to our body of knowledge as they are discovered. \u201cThey do not understand that, instead, research is an ungainly mechanism that moves in fits and starts and that its ever-expanding path of knowledge is complicated by blind alleys and fruitless detours,\u201d writes <em>New York Times<\/em> science reporter Cordelia Dean in her book,<em> Am I Making Myself Clear? A Scientist\u2019s Guide to Talking to the Public<\/em> (2009). As a result, Dean says, revisions to a scientific consensus make people think that scientists don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about. NECSS panelist Dr. Massimo Pigliucci, chair of the philosophy department at City University of New York-Lehman College, has a favorite example of this mindset. In response to an editorial he penned on the science of evolution, a letter to the editor replied, \u201cI don\u2019t understand why people want to believe in science\u2014science changes all the time.\u201d Yet this, of course, is its strength; science adjusts its claims in response to new information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertainty in Science: It\u2019s a Feature, Not a Bug People tend to think of scientific progress as always advancing in a straight line, with new facts being added permanently to our body of knowledge as they are discovered. \u201cThey do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4492\">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":[3,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}