{"id":7299,"date":"2011-08-30T11:06:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2011-08-30T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T16:08:15","slug":"republicans-against-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/30\/republicans-against-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Against Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And speaking about economists who understand what needs to be done, we have the article <a title=\"Paul Krugman article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/29\/opinion\/republicans-against-science.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Republicans Against Science<\/strong><\/a> from economist Paul Krugman. This column goes somewhat far afield of economics.\u00a0 He finishes with the following words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, we don\u2019t know who will win next year\u2019s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these years the world\u2019s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge. And, in a time of severe challenges \u2014 environmental, economic, and more \u2014 that\u2019s a terrifying prospect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a personal note of confession, having achieved a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, I have a prejudice that believes that actually studying something might lead to a better understanding of the subject of study.\u00a0 Maybe that is why I fail to see value in always downplaying what academics have to say about any given subject.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 One of my personal credos is that one should never believe something cannot be done just because an expert says so.\u00a0 It is worthwhile to consider what they have to say, but I have frequently found that it is also worthwhile to do some investigation on your own.\u00a0 You might, and I emphasize might, be able to come up with something the experts have not thought about yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And speaking about economists who understand what needs to be done, we have the article Republicans Against Science from economist Paul Krugman. This column goes somewhat far afield of economics.\u00a0 He finishes with the following words: Now, we don\u2019t know who will win next year\u2019s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}