{"id":795,"date":"2010-10-19T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2010\/10\/19\/in_which_even_the_government_thinks_science_is_vital\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T22:15:00","slug":"in_which_even_the_government_thinks_science_is_vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2010\/10\/19\/in_which_even_the_government_thinks_science_is_vital\/","title":{"rendered":"In which even the Government thinks science is vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is light.<\/p>\n<p>\nSeveral <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2010\/oct\/19\/spending-review-science-budget-spared\">early<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-11579949\">indicators<\/a> suggest that the UK science budget is to be spared. Although a freeze on funding will correspond to a cut in real terms of about 10% after four years, due to inflation, it is far less than the originally projected 25-45%, and is also much kinder than the cuts to many other sectors. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe BBC is crediting &#8220;strong representations&#8230;by the scientific community&#8221; for the reprieve. Which I think, quite possibly, might <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ue19877e8\/2010\/09\/08\/in-which-the-great-slumbering-scientific-beast-awakens\">include<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceisvital.org.uk\">us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nCan it really be true? And how can we ever thank all the thousands of people who helped make the campaign a success?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart is light. Several early indicators suggest that the UK science budget is to be spared. Although a freeze on funding will correspond to a cut in real terms of about 10% after four years, due to inflation, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2010\/10\/19\/in_which_even_the_government_thinks_science_is_vital\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}