{"id":833,"date":"2006-11-21T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T09:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/21\/fire-is-cool\/"},"modified":"2006-11-21T09:49:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T09:49:58","slug":"fire-is-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/21\/fire-is-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Is Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice article in the <cite>Times<\/cite> today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/21\/science\/21myth.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ei=5088&#038;en=2ae0bad815f8c4f0&#038;ex=1321765200&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\"><cite>Mythbusters<\/cite> as science television<\/a>. As is typical of the <cite>Times<\/cite>, it sort of overreaches with some of the conclusions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Their delight in discovery for its own sake is familiar to most scientists, who welcome any result because it either confirms or debunks a hypothesis. That sense of things can be corrupted when grants or licensing deals are on the line. But the Mythbusters get paid whether their experiments succeed or fail. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>but it&#8217;s generally a good piece.<\/p>\n<p>The show is somewhere on the good side of &#8220;guilty pleasure.&#8221; Scientifically, a lot of what they do is completely daft, but at the same time, it&#8217;s fun to watch them blow stuff up in contrived ways&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice article in the Times today about Mythbusters as science television. As is typical of the Times, it sort of overreaches with some of the conclusions: Their delight in discovery for its own sake is familiar to most scientists, who welcome any result because it either confirms or debunks a hypothesis. That sense&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/21\/fire-is-cool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire Is Cool<\/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":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}