{"id":3932,"date":"2009-07-28T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/28\/philosophy-of-science-poll-emo\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T17:27:48","slug":"philosophy-of-science-poll-emo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/28\/philosophy-of-science-poll-emo\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy of Science Poll: Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m stealing post ideas from Twitter, here&#8217;s another poll question, thanks to Eric Weinstein, who <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EricRWeinstein\/status\/2889014453\">wrote<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/EricRWeinstein\/status\/2889077761\">earlier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And @CameronNeylon, when you write &#8220;Good science means not having an (emotional) allegiance to any theory surely?&#8221; I must strongly disagree.<\/p>\n<p>This position results from the luxury of living on the far side of an adaptive valley which long ago was crossed by others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s another poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/1818578.js\"><\/script><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/1818578\/\">Agree or disagree: &#8220;Good science means not having an (emotional) allegiance to any theory.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">polls<\/a>)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>(This was in the context of a running series of ruminations about academic organization, but it&#8217;s sort of interesting even as a free-floating question.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m stealing post ideas from Twitter, here&#8217;s another poll question, thanks to Eric Weinstein, who wrote earlier: And @CameronNeylon, when you write &#8220;Good science means not having an (emotional) allegiance to any theory surely?&#8221; I must strongly disagree. This position results from the luxury of living on the far side of an adaptive valley&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/28\/philosophy-of-science-poll-emo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy of Science Poll: Emotions<\/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":[8,137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-polls","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}