{"id":88798,"date":"2019-03-20T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/science-has-a-problem-here-is-how-you-can-help"},"modified":"2019-03-20T06:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:02:24","slug":"science-has-a-problem-here-is-how-you-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/science-has-a-problem-here-is-how-you-can-help","title":{"rendered":"Science has a problem. Here is how you can help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-has-a-problem-here-is-how-you-can-help4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science has a problem (especially theoretical physics). Here\u2019s how you can help.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZdIiVXFcAdE\/XJIzHCsaVtI\/AAAAAAAAEjw\/CSY7z4jQ0-gUNQYPyj4RmWtQGiNuEqE7ACLcBGAs\/s1600\/hossenfelder-lost-in-brighter%255B1%255D.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1033\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-has-a-problem-here-is-how-you-can-help2.jpg\" width=\"128\" \/><\/a>[I have gotten numerous requests by people who want to share Appendix C of my <a href=\"http:\/\/lostinmathbook.com\/\">book<\/a>. The content is copyrighted, of course, but my publisher kindly agreed that I can make it publicly available. You may use this text for non-commercial purposes, so long as you add the copyright disclaimer, see bottom of post.]<\/p>\n<p>Both bottom-up and top-down measures are necessary to improve the current situation. This is an interdisciplinary problem whose solution requires input from the sociology of science, philosophy, psychology, and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 the practicing scientists themselves. Details differ by research area. One size does not fit all. Here is what you can do to help.<\/p>\n<p>As a scientist:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/science-has-problem-here-is-how-you-can.html\">https:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/science-has-proble...u-can.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science has a problem (especially theoretical physics). Here\u2019s how you can help. [I have gotten numerous requests by people who want to share Appendix C of my book. The content is copyrighted, of course, but my publisher kindly agreed that I can make it publicly available. You may use this text for non-commercial purposes, so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798","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\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}