{"id":35058,"date":"2016-07-10T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35058"},"modified":"2016-06-29T23:35:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T03:35:52","slug":"qotd-science-isnt-something-you-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/qotd-science-isnt-something-you-believe-in\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Science isn&#8217;t something you &#8220;believe in&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The arguments about global warming too often sound more like theology than science. Oh, the word \u201cscience\u201d gets thrown around a great deal, but it&#8217;s cited as a sacred authority, not a fallible process that staggers only awkwardly and unevenly toward the truth, with frequent lurches in the wrong direction. I cannot count the number of times someone has told me that they believe in \u201cthe science,\u201d as if that were the name of some omniscient god who had delivered us final answers written in stone. For those people, there can be only two categories in the debate: believers and unbelievers. Apostles and heretics.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, not how science works, and people who treat it this way are not showing their scientific <em>bona fides<\/em>; they are violating the very thing in which they profess such deep belief.  One does not believe in \u201cscience\u201d as an answer; science is a way of asking questions. At any given time, that method produces a lot of ideas, some of which are correct, and many of which are false, in part or in whole.  <\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-06-01\/global-warming-alarmists-you-re-doing-it-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Global-Warming Alarmists, You&#8217;re Doing It Wrong&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2016-06-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arguments about global warming too often sound more like theology than science. Oh, the word \u201cscience\u201d gets thrown around a great deal, but it&#8217;s cited as a sacred authority, not a fallible process that staggers only awkwardly and unevenly toward the truth, with frequent lurches in the wrong direction. I cannot count the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[65,41,16],"tags":[245,240,359],"class_list":["post-35058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-quotations","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-uncertainty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-97s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35059,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058\/revisions\/35059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}