{"id":6650,"date":"2010-09-25T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2010-09-25T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T08:00:09","slug":"things-that-make-me-feel-that-im-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6650","title":{"rendered":"Things That Make Me Feel That I&#039;m Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/09\/24\/the-new-objectivity\/\">Cosmic Variance:  The New Objectivity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Science) Reporting as <em>Truth vs. Falsity<\/em> as opposed to <em>He said vs. She said<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If journalists are just mindless stenographers, they can\u2019t be accused of making that particular mistake. But they are actually making a much more serious mistake, abandoning the search for truth in favor of the goal of not being blamed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to argue against this mindset, which is often mis-labeled as \u201cobjectivity.\u201d So maybe we should be defending the New Objectivity: the crucial duty of reporters to separate what is true from what is false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic Variance: The New Objectivity (Science) Reporting as Truth vs. Falsity as opposed to He said vs. She said If journalists are just mindless stenographers, they can\u2019t be accused of making that particular mistake. But they are actually making a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6650\">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":[24,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","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=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}