{"id":13402,"date":"2010-11-07T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/11\/07\/13402.html"},"modified":"2010-11-07T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T20:04:00","slug":"on-scientific-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/11\/07\/on-scientific-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"On scientific dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happened across this while looking up something else:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part is actually having a better theory. Publishing dissenting theories is important when they are backed by plausible evidence, but this does not mean giving critics &ldquo;equal time&rdquo; to dissent from every finding by a mainstream scientist.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Ted Goertzel, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/embor\/journal\/v11\/n7\/full\/embor201084.html\">Conspiracy theories in science<\/a>&rdquo; (<cite>EMBO Reports<\/cite> 2010)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happened across this while looking up something else: But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}