{"id":3538,"date":"2009-03-26T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/26\/obligatory-freeman-dyson-link\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T13:42:56","slug":"obligatory-freeman-dyson-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/26\/obligatory-freeman-dyson-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory Freeman Dyson Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a scientist with a blog, I am apparently contractually obligated to link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/29\/magazine\/29Dyson-t.html?_r=2&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=all\"><cite>New York Times Magazine<\/cite> profile of Freeman Dyson<\/a>. If I don&#8217;t, they&#8217;ll take away my privileges as a scientist. (Of course, since those consist mostly of the right to review grant applications for the NSF, maybe it&#8217;d be worth the risk&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind linking to it, though, because it is a nice piece of work. The focus is mostly on Dyson&#8217;s (relatively) recent climate skepticism, because that&#8217;s a high-profile offbeat opinion to have these days, but it gives a nice sketch of his background and accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>One surprising thing about the article, though, was its failure to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Hoyle\">Fred Hoyle<\/a>. They don&#8217;t have any deep scientific connections (that I know of), but if you asked me to name a British-born physicist best known for advocating unpopular or downright odd ideas, it&#8217;s a toss-up whether I&#8217;d name Dyson or Hoyle first. If I were assigned to write about one, it&#8217;s a sure bet that I&#8217;d end up mentioning the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a scientist with a blog, I am apparently contractually obligated to link to the New York Times Magazine profile of Freeman Dyson. If I don&#8217;t, they&#8217;ll take away my privileges as a scientist. (Of course, since those consist mostly of the right to review grant applications for the NSF, maybe it&#8217;d be worth the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/26\/obligatory-freeman-dyson-link\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obligatory Freeman Dyson Link<\/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":[10,48,80,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-history_of_science","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538","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=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}