{"id":95296,"date":"2019-08-26T02:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/is-science-synonymous-with-truth"},"modified":"2019-08-26T02:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:02:45","slug":"is-science-synonymous-with-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/is-science-synonymous-with-truth","title":{"rendered":"Is science synonymous with \u2018truth\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the increasing popularity of science journalism, scientists are starting to be rewarded for doing research that is more likely to have a public impact, rather than be centered on esoteric subjects. The bad side of this? To win acclaim and make a \u201cbig splash\u201d in the media, a scientist may push results that are fraudulent or report findings that haven\u2019t been completely verified yet in order to beat the competition.<\/p>\n

In this video, game theory expert Kevin Zollman<\/a> discusses how bad science is sometimes propagated nowadays for the sake of a scientist\u2019s personal interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the increasing popularity of science journalism, scientists are starting to be rewarded for doing research that is more likely to have a public impact, rather than be centered on esoteric subjects. The bad side of this? To win acclaim and make a \u201cbig splash\u201d in the media, a scientist may push results that are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95296","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\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}