{"id":7971,"date":"2011-02-17T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2011-02-17T07:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T12:12:12","slug":"why-do-evolutionary-biologists-always-make-gross-generalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7971","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Evolutionary Biologists Always Make Gross Generalizations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2011\/02\/why_do_physicists_think_they_a.php\">Pharyngula:  Why do physicists think they are masters of all sciences?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There seem to be a lot of physicists, however, who believe they know everything there is to know about biology (it&#8217;s a minor subdivision of physics, don&#8217;t you know), and will blithely say the most awesomely stupid things about it. Here, for instance, is Michio Kaku simply <em>babbling<\/em> in reply to a question about evolution, and getting everything wrong. It&#8217;s painful to watch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kaku&#8217;s tendency to bather via an orifice other than his mouth has been noted more than once in the blogohedron, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6138\">he doesn&#8217;t even need<\/a> to leave the field of physics to do it.  The question here is why PZ thinks that he is representative of physicists?  How does he get from <em>one<\/em> to <em>a lot<\/em> of physicists?<\/p>\n<p>The question is why does <em>Michio Kaku<\/em>, who happens to be a physicist, think <em>he<\/em> is a master of all science.  Leave the rest of us out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharyngula: Why do physicists think they are masters of all sciences? There seem to be a lot of physicists, however, who believe they know everything there is to know about biology (it&#8217;s a minor subdivision of physics, don&#8217;t you know), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7971\">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":[3,34,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-not-really-science-at-all","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","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=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}