{"id":2560,"date":"2008-05-02T07:56:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T07:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/02\/this-sentence-is-scientific\/"},"modified":"2008-05-02T07:56:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T07:56:44","slug":"this-sentence-is-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/02\/this-sentence-is-scientific\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sentence Is Scientific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Red Sox are the greatest single franchise in any sport in history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this a scientific statement? Should it be?<\/p>\n<p>How can you tell whether it&#8217;s scientific or not?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(The statement in question was uttered by a classmate of mine at Williams in 1991 or so, and we spent an entire dinner arguing about it. I still think it&#8217;s one of the dumbest assertions I&#8217;ve ever heard.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a statement: The Red Sox are the greatest single franchise in any sport in history. Is this a scientific statement? Should it be? How can you tell whether it&#8217;s scientific or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}