{"id":4652,"date":"2015-12-27T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2015-12-27T07:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T12:11:21","slug":"if-you-read-only-one-thing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/if-you-read-only-one-thing-today\/","title":{"rendered":"If you read only one thing today…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….it’s this on the jockeying for new nutrition guidelines.\u00a0 And if time is limited read the last paragraph.<\/p>\n

Or if it’s really limited, here’s the last paragraph:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no shortage of lessons here, well beyond this food fight. Even when everyone\u2019s intentions are good, politics can get in the way of science. Scientists are not immune to fads and groupthink just because they claim to speak for science. Special interests work the refs, but the refs often have an agenda as well. Winners of policy fights hate to lose \u2014 or admit they\u2019re wrong. And people who shout about a settled consensus are often only shouting to drown out those who might disagree.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve always been embarrassed that my journalism degree was a Master of Science<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 But at least the first reporting class at Northwestern taught me how fallible journalist’s were.\u00a0 All “scientists” should have been required to take that course.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s the whole article:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428901\/nutrition-guidelines-politics-food?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….it’s this on the jockeying for new nutrition guidelines.\u00a0 And if time is limited read the last paragraph. Or if it’s really limited, here’s the last paragraph: There\u2019s no shortage of lessons here, well beyond this food fight. Even when everyone\u2019s intentions are good, politics can get in the way of science. Scientists are not immune to fads and groupthink just because they claim to speak for science. Special interests work the refs, but the refs often have an agenda as well. Winners of policy fights hate to lose \u2014 or admit they\u2019re wrong. And people who shout about a settled consensus are often only shouting to drown out those who might disagree. I’ve always been embarrassed that my journalism degree was a Master of Science.\u00a0 But at least the first reporting class at Northwestern taught me how fallible journalist’s were.\u00a0 All “scientists” should have been required to take that course. Now, here’s the whole article: http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/428901\/nutrition-guidelines-politics-food?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,22,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-nutrition","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}