{"id":8286,"date":"2011-03-29T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2011-03-29T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T08:00:17","slug":"when-is-a-fact-not-a-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8286","title":{"rendered":"When is a Fact not a Fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a hard time reconciling the title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/29\/science\/earth\/29brenner.html\">Countering Radiation Fears With Just the Facts<\/a>, with this quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He believes that even low doses increase the risk of cancer, and that there is no \u201csafe\u201d level or threshold below which the risk does not rise \u2014 even if that risk cannot be measured statistically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t measure it and objectively establish it as true, how can it be a fact?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a hard time reconciling the title, Countering Radiation Fears With Just the Facts, with this quote: He believes that even low doses increase the risk of cancer, and that there is no \u201csafe\u201d level or threshold below which the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8286\">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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286","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=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}