{"id":5334,"date":"2010-04-23T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2010-04-23T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:00:39","slug":"endorsing-the-scientific-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5334","title":{"rendered":"Endorsing the Scientific Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/boobquake-determined-to-prove-cleric-wrong\/story-e6frfro0-1225856787031\">Boobquake determined to prove cleric wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dressing immodestly on April 26th, in order to disprove the statement by a cleric:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many women who do not dress modestly &#8230; lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,&#8221; Sedighi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, a single test is not enough, since there may well be an earthquake in close temporal proximity to the event.  We need lots of statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blaghag.com\/2010\/04\/quick-clarification-about-boobquake.html\">Jen recognizes this<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And yes, I know I need a larger sample size to make this good science. Maybe I&#8217;ll include Mardi gras in my calculations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boobquake determined to prove cleric wrong Dressing immodestly on April 26th, in order to disprove the statement by a cleric: &#8220;Many women who do not dress modestly &#8230; lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5334\">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":[3,43,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-religion","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","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=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}