{"id":421,"date":"2010-02-04T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/02\/04\/from_my_pedestal\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:54:34","slug":"from_my_pedestal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/02\/04\/from_my_pedestal\/","title":{"rendered":"From my pedestal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to clamber up onto my pedestal for a moment (it&#8217;s rented &#8211; I don&#8217;t actually possess one) and shout at the very top of my voice that Simon Jenkins has written an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/feb\/04\/scientists-fallibilty-self-criticism-question?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments\">article<\/a> in <em>The Guardian<\/em> that has made me VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY CROSS!!!<\/p>\n<p>\tI&#8217;ve already commented there (as scww) and have nothing more to say on the matter tonight. Is it just that Jenkins is an ignoramus when it comes to science or is this sort of awful &#8216;journalism&#8217; somehow our fault?<\/p>\n<p>\tThank you. I&#8217;m feeling a bit better already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to clamber up onto my pedestal for a moment (it&#8217;s rented &#8211; I don&#8217;t actually possess one) and shout at the very top of my voice that Simon Jenkins has written an article in The Guardian that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2010\/02\/04\/from_my_pedestal\/\">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-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}