{"id":304,"date":"2017-05-01T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=304"},"modified":"2017-04-30T15:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:46:57","slug":"a-thought-on-science-and-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/a-thought-on-science-and-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"A thought on science and public policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantsofdoubt.org\/\"><em>Merchants of Doubt<\/em><\/a>, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">if science is about studying the world as it actually is\u2014rather than as we wish it to be\u2014then science will always have the potential to unsettle the status quo. As an independent source of authority and knowledge, science has always had the capacity to challenge ruling powers\u2019 ability to control people by controlling their beliefs. Indeed, it has the power to challenge anyone who wishes to preserve, protect, or defend the status quo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B003RRXXO8\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/merchants-of-doubt-erik-m-conway\/1101556571\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway: if science is about studying the world as it actually is\u2014rather than as we wish it to be\u2014then science&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2017\/05\/01\/a-thought-on-science-and-public-policy\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}