{"id":28218,"date":"2021-05-18T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28218"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:44:59","slug":"the-missing-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/the-missing-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone says, &#8220;Follow the science&#8221; or &#8220;I love science!&#8221;, bear in mind the omitted word:<\/p>\n<p>Follow the [political] science.<\/p>\n<p>Which is not really science.  I try to explain to my boys that it&#8217;s science if you can replicate it in a lab through an experiment.  Otherwise, it&#8217;s speculation.  Which puts all sorts of &#8220;science&#8221; into the realm of &#8220;We&#8217;re guessing here,&#8221; which includes climate science, paleontology, a lot of astronomy, and social &#8220;sciences.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone says, &#8220;Follow the science&#8221; or &#8220;I love science!&#8221;, bear in mind the omitted word: Follow the [political] science. Which is not really science. I try to explain to my boys that it&#8217;s science if you can replicate it in a lab through an experiment. Otherwise, it&#8217;s speculation. Which puts all sorts of &#8220;science&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28219,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218\/revisions\/28219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}