{"id":1054,"date":"2009-05-07T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:42","slug":"how-science-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"How Science Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And while I&#8217;m talking about this &#8211; the Wisharts of the world seem convinced that the massive scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic global warming is (a) overstated and\/or (b) groupthink and\/or (c) faked to earn research funding.<br \/>\nWell, in my not inconsiderable personal experience of knowing actual scientists, I have noticed one overarching principle: the chief activity of scientists is <em>taking the piss<\/em>. In fact, it could fairly be said, urine extraction is fundamental to the scientific development of knowledge.<br \/>\nSo here&#8217;s a rule of thumb for you: if a proposition has survived the piss-taking efforts of a generation of scientists, there&#8217;s probably something to it. AGW has.<br \/>\n(Wishart, sadly, hasn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And while I&#8217;m talking about this &#8211; the Wisharts of the world seem convinced that the massive scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic global warming is (a) overstated and\/or (b) groupthink and\/or (c) faked to earn research funding. Well, in my not inconsiderable personal experience of knowing actual scientists, I have noticed one overarching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Science Works<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-h0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}