{"id":538,"date":"2008-07-06T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=538"},"modified":"2008-07-06T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T22:00:32","slug":"the-end-of-theory-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/538","title":{"rendered":"The End of Theory.  Not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days back, Chris Anderson at Wired posted some junk about large volumes of data <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/magazine\/16-07\/pb_theory\">making the scientific method obsolete,<\/a> misapplying George Box&#8217;s quote, &#8220;All models are wrong, but some are useful.&#8221;  I was a little too distracted to respond, but it didn&#8217;t exactly escape the notice of the science and skeptic blog-o-icosahedron.<\/p>\n<p>Bee over at Backreaction <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/end-of-theory.html\">responds<\/a>.   Several links to other responses at the end.<br \/>\nUpdate:  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2008\/07\/petabyte_scale_dataanalysis_an.php?\">Good Math Bad Math<\/a> reacts as well <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple days back, Chris Anderson at Wired posted some junk about large volumes of data making the scientific method obsolete, misapplying George Box&#8217;s quote, &#8220;All models are wrong, but some are useful.&#8221; I was a little too distracted to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/538\">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":[3,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-science-general","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}