{"id":3359,"date":"2009-01-28T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/28\/links-for-2009-01-28\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T04:00:43","slug":"links-for-2009-01-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/28\/links-for-2009-01-28\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-01-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mikethemadbiologist\/2009\/01\/what_is_sciences_rightful_plac.php\">Mike the Mad Biologist : To Restore Science to Its Rightful Place, We Need to Redefine Elitism<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Our Benevolent Seed Overlords ask &quot;What is science&#8217;s rightful place?&quot; which refers to a line from Obama&#8217;s inaugural address where he vowed to &quot;restore science to its rightful place.&quot;<br \/>\nSince ScienceBlogling Jake discussed the importance of basing policy on evidence&#8211;as well as correctly recognizing that the method we use to solve problems does not shed much light on whether we should address those problems in the first place&#8211;I want to bring up one problem that science faces: it is, to a great extent, elitist.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2009\/01\/27\/charles-stross-book-event\/\">Charles Stross book event \u00e2\u0080\u0094 Crooked Timber<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">They can&#8217;t convince me that Glasshouse is anything but excruciating, but some pretty smart people have written articles about Charlie&#8217;s books.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/SF\">SF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/crooked-timber\">crooked-timber<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2009\/01\/tell-me-it-is-so-that-i-might-panic.html\">Acephalous: Tell me it is, so that I might panic.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Doing some quick searches in response to our co-blogger\u00e2\u0080\u0099s co-blogger\u00e2\u0080\u0099s post about the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, I came across the following chart detailing the ratio of reported cases to deaths in San Fransisco.  Not only is it a priceless statistical representation of panic, it also captures the malleability of even professional opinion.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/01\/26\/of-markets-and-weather\/\">Of markets and weather | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;There is essentially zero causation between Obama\u00e2\u0080\u0099s installation in the oval office and market performance on the same day. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not like stock brokers woke up that Tuesday morning, flipped on their TVs, discovered that Obama was about to become president, and decided to dump their portfolios.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/27\/science\/27essa.html?_r=1\">Essay &#8211; Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Arguably science is the most successful human activity of all time. Which is not to say that life within it is always utopian, as several of my colleagues have pointed out in articles about pharmaceutical industry payments to medical researchers.<\/p>\n<p>But nobody was ever sent to prison for espousing the wrong value for the Hubble constant. There is always room for more data to argue over.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u00e2\u0080\u0099re going to get gooey about something, that\u00e2\u0080\u0099s not so bad.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/overbye\">overbye<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike the Mad Biologist : To Restore Science to Its Rightful Place, We Need to Redefine Elitism &quot;Our Benevolent Seed Overlords ask &quot;What is science&#8217;s rightful place?&quot; which refers to a line from Obama&#8217;s inaugural address where he vowed to &quot;restore science to its rightful place.&quot; Since ScienceBlogling Jake discussed the importance of basing policy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/28\/links-for-2009-01-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-01-28<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359","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=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}