{"id":16333,"date":"2010-04-28T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/defending-science-on-huffpo-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:39:29","slug":"defending-science-on-huffpo-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/defending-science-on-huffpo-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Defending Science on HuffPo | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to write for the Huffington Post, before it became overrun with antiscience alt-med antivax garbage so thick I could smell it through my monitor.<\/p><p>Case in point would be <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dr-larry-dossey\/the-scientific-method-an_b_550004.html\">a somewhat targetless essay by Dr. Larry Dossey<\/a>, who seems to be trying to say that because science is portrayed as an individual effort, but is actually usually a team effort, students get confused and marginalized. Or something. His point is difficult to determine. But in any case, he&rsquo;s quite wrong; the idea of science being done by groups of people collaboratively is everywhere, from astronomy to zoology.<\/p><p>I need not go into details, because, happily, Steve Newton from the NCSE <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steven-newton\/in-defense-of-scientific-_b_552602.html\">has posted a rebuttal on HuffPo<\/a> that tears Dossey to shreds. My favorite part was when Dossey says Nobel Prizes are only given to individuals, and my first thought was \"Wow, I wonder if the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/peace\/laureates\/2007\/press.html\">IPCC<\/a> knows about this?\"&hellip; in his essay, Newton says almost exactly the same thing. Great minds, yadda yadda.<\/p><p>Anyway, I suggest you read Dossey&rsquo;s screed, and then read Newton&rsquo;s slamdunking of it. It&rsquo;s a wonderful exercise in muddied and clear thinking, in that order. With people like Newton writing for HuffPo, it makes me feel a bit better that I don&rsquo;t need to as much.<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the white lab coat Robert Luhn of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncse.com\/\">NCSE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/r6IEPR69eTpZm1mU9B3xlnDfxX0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/deae0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/r6IEPR69eTpZm1mU9B3xlnDfxX0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/deae0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/deae0_dxGTthL4wK8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/deae0_IE4czlC2SX4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to write for the Huffington Post, before it became overrun with antiscience alt-med antivax garbage so thick I could smell it through my monitor.Case in point would be a somewhat targetless essay by Dr. Larry Dossey, who seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/defending-science-on-huffpo-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}