{"id":14282,"date":"2015-05-20T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:10","slug":"the-trouble-with-scientists-philip-ball-nautilus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/the-trouble-with-scientists-philip-ball-nautilus","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Scientists \u2014 Philip Ball | Nautilus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA common response to this situation is to argue that, even if individual scientists might fool themselves, others have no hesitation in critiquing their ideas or their results, and so it all comes out in the wash: Science as a communal activity is self-correcting. Sometimes this is true\u2014but it doesn\u2019t necessarily happen as quickly or smoothly as we might like to believe.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/24\/error\/the-trouble-with-scientists\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA common response to this situation is to argue that, even if individual scientists might fool themselves, others have no hesitation in critiquing their ideas or their results, and so it all comes out in the wash: Science as a communal activity is self-correcting. Sometimes this is true\u2014but it doesn\u2019t necessarily happen as quickly or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55422,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions\/55422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}