{"id":9396,"date":"2011-08-01T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2011-08-01T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:00:48","slug":"simon-says-science-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9396","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says, Science Doesn&#039;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neuroskeptic.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/science-doesnt-say.html\">Science Doesn&#8217;t Say<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How many times have you heard someone say that &#8220;science tells us&#8221; &#8211; or that it shows, reveals, says, proves, or makes clear?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very common. But it&#8217;s misleading.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists never talk like this while they&#8217;re doing science, which suggests that there&#8217;s something wrong with it. Rather, we say: &#8220;Our experiment was inspired by the fact that X, which was shown last year by Y et al&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Doesn&#8217;t Say How many times have you heard someone say that &#8220;science tells us&#8221; &#8211; or that it shows, reveals, says, proves, or makes clear? It&#8217;s very common. But it&#8217;s misleading. Scientists never talk like this while they&#8217;re doing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9396\">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-9396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396","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=9396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}