{"id":661,"date":"2013-11-24T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2013-11-24T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:01:51","slug":"the-subtle-war-on-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?page_id=661","title":{"rendered":"The (subtle) war on Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of the blatant Anti-Science attacks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2203120\/\">Sarah Palin&#8217;s War on Science!<\/a> There are more subtle attacks, a smearing of Science research that undermines Science such as this article; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/life\/dn14590-and-on-that-farm-the-cows-face-north--says-google-.html\"> The world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s smelliest magnets<\/a> I call BS on these sort of studies, any farmer knows that cows face away from the Sun when grazing. No Magnets involved. But the assertion is that this is what constitutes <strong>&#8216;Science&#8217;<\/strong>. The attempt is to make a mockery of more Hard Core Scientific Research. Science has a hard enough time getting funding, but to allow anyone to point at magnet cows as an example of &#8216;Fundamental Scientific Research&#8217; undermines all scientific research. So the next time you muse at a &#8216;Scientific Study&#8217; of why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/10\/29\/2404381.htm\">Men find red-clad women hotter<\/a> you will know that you are being manipulated against Science.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of the blatant Anti-Science attacks like Sarah Palin&#8217;s War on Science! There are more subtle attacks, a smearing of Science research that undermines Science such as this article; The world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s smelliest magnets I call BS on these sort of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?page_id=661\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The (subtle) war on Science<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}