{"id":131,"date":"2008-05-20T06:56:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T06:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/20\/slapdown\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T06:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T06:56:41","slug":"slapdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/20\/slapdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Slapdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woah.  This is what science is about.  The cut and thrust of informed debate.  Elegant hypotheses slain by the dragons of empiricism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nClinical, evolutionary, and molecular evidence refutes their hypothesis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nConclusions [&#8230;] are uninterpretable and untenable\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\u2014 from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/reprint\/0802584105v1\">letter<\/a> by Joachim Herz et al. in PNAS, addressing perceived (alleged?) deficiencies in a paper by <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.0710010105\">Ozcelik et al.<\/a> , entitled <em>Mutations in the very low-density lipoprotein receptor VLDLR cause cerebellar hypoplasia and quadrupedal locomotion in humans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\nPass the popcorn, Charles.  I&#8217;m going to watch this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woah. This is what science is about. The cut and thrust of informed debate. Elegant hypotheses slain by the dragons of empiricism. Clinical, evolutionary, and molecular evidence refutes their hypothesis. Conclusions [&#8230;] are uninterpretable and untenable \u2014 from a letter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/20\/slapdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}