{"id":23751,"date":"2010-07-06T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/more-responses-on-scientists%e2%80%99-understanding-of-the-public-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T08:10:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T08:10:54","slug":"more-responses-on-scientists%e2%80%99-understanding-of-the-public-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/more-responses-on-scientists%e2%80%99-understanding-of-the-public-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"More Responses on Scientists\u2019 Understanding of the Public | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, this topic has really run away on its own at this point. I can no longer keep track of all the things that have been said. I find Chad Orzel's thread the best, because it really gets into a lot of the baffling reactions, many of which amount to saying, \"this oped omits X\" -- even though X is to be found in the longer paper, or in the American Academy's lengthy transcripts which I was asked to summarize. So I really feel that the people who are making this argument about omissions, without even mentioning the longer work, are being unfair. An example would be Evil Monkey--here criticizing the Post piece without mentioning the longer paper, and yet nevertheless saying \"I've already done more than Mooney. I've made a couple concrete suggestions for how the problem needs to be addressed\"; here glossing over that omission by saying the prior post \"was directed at the Op-ed, which was pedantic and useless, if not counterproductive.\" Look: Everybody knows that one has to pare a topic down in order to write shorter articles, especially for mass media outlets rather than specialized ones. I've really seen nothing raised as an alleged omission in my Washington ...<\/p>

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Well, this topic has really run away on its own at this point. I can no longer keep track of all the things that have been said. I find Chad Orzel's thread the best, because it really gets into a … Continue reading →<\/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-23751","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\/23751"}],"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=23751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}