{"id":1400,"date":"2010-06-27T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T07:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2024-07-17T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:20:08","slug":"what-good-is-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"What good is Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like his denigration of personal observation. I mean, that is the beginning point of science.<\/p>\n<p>You observe something.<br \/>\nYou form a theory based on that observation.<br \/>\nYou make a hypothesis of what would happen if you applied that theory in a practical situation.<br \/>\nYou apply that theory to see if it works.<br \/>\nBased on the result of your application, you either confirm the theory or come up with a new one to explain the difference between your expectation and the observed result.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t even begin to contemplate what he would say about personal awareness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PGNxgm3tdG0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PGNxgm3tdG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like his denigration of personal observation. I mean, that is the beginning point of science. You observe something. You form a theory based on that observation. You make a hypothesis of what would happen if you applied that theory in a practical situation. You apply that theory to see if it works. Based &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=1400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What good is Science?&#8221;<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56609,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/56609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}