{"id":627,"date":"2008-08-02T05:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=627"},"modified":"2008-08-02T05:44:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:44:23","slug":"the-truth-stings-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/627","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Stings a Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2008\/aug\/02\/television.television\">Charlie Brooker&#8217;s screen burn<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don&#8217;t want to hear<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wariness [of scientists] stems from three popular misconceptions:<\/p>\n<p>1) Scientists want to fill our world with chemicals and killer robots; 2) They don&#8217;t appreciate the raw beauty of nature, maaan; and<\/p>\n<p>3) They&#8217;re always spoiling our fun, pointing out homeopathy doesn&#8217;t work or ghosts don&#8217;t exist EVEN THOUGH they KNOW we REALLY, REALLY want to believe in them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget, they say they&#8217;re working for us, but what they really want to do is <em>rule the world<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Brooker&#8217;s screen burn Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don&#8217;t want to hear The wariness [of scientists] stems from three popular misconceptions: 1) Scientists want to fill our world with chemicals and killer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/627\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}