{"id":348,"date":"2008-10-20T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/10\/20\/blog_power_in_the_service_of_science\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:52:27","slug":"blog_power_in_the_service_of_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/10\/20\/blog_power_in_the_service_of_science\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog power in the service of science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking my cue from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/\">Ben Goldacre\u2019s<\/a> comments at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/natureconferences\/sciblog2008\/index.html\">SciBlog08<\/a>, I\u2019d like to unleash the power of the blogosphere. I want to see if Nature Networkers can shed any light on the interview that I heard early this morning on the BBC Radio 4 Today <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/today\/hi\/today\/newsid_7679000\/7679197.stm\">program<\/a> (listen to the 4 min item at 7.21 am).<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianjford.com\/bjford.htm\">Prof Ford<\/a>, a writer and broadcaster (and visiting professor in e-learning at Leicester University), converted the electrical signal from a nerve cell into an audible sound and claimed that this revealed a kind of cellular intelligence. As far as I can tell, this \u2018finding\u2019 is not based on any kind of peer-reviewed research. It seemed to be pure supposition on the part of Prof Ford.<\/p>\n<p>\tBut my expertise is not is this area. Can anyone out there dig up any support for Prof Ford\u2019s interpretation (I found nothing on Pubmed)? Or am I correct in thinking that this is non-science (aka nonsense)?<\/p>\n<p>\t(Incidentally, this interview linked in to an interesting discussion on scientific authority\u2014&#8217;Hierarchy in Science&#8217;\u2014over at <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.lablit.com\/viewforum.php?f=9\">LabLit<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking my cue from Ben Goldacre\u2019s comments at SciBlog08, I\u2019d like to unleash the power of the blogosphere. I want to see if Nature Networkers can shed any light on the interview that I heard early this morning on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/10\/20\/blog_power_in_the_service_of_science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}