{"id":4801,"date":"2016-04-08T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2016-04-08T08:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:01:25","slug":"beware-settle-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/beware-settle-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware &#8220;settled science&#8221;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.I do try to stay away from politics here&#8230;there&#8217;s enough everywhere else.\u00a0 But with the increasing dogmatism (okay, fascism)\u00a0in academia today it seems clear a lot of people are going to get hurt in the name of &#8220;settled science&#8221;.\u00a0 All thought and speech\u00a0really is being\u00a0regulated now among the &#8220;educated&#8221;&#8230;.and the rest of us will soon be caught in the net.<\/p>\n<p>Our concentration here is on food&#8230;and nutrition.\u00a0 And this article raises the question of how many people have been killed by &#8220;settled science&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/apr\/07\/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/apr\/07\/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.I do try to stay away from politics here&#8230;there&#8217;s enough everywhere else.\u00a0 But with the increasing dogmatism (okay, fascism)\u00a0in academia today it seems clear a lot of people are going to get hurt in the name of &#8220;settled science&#8221;.\u00a0 All thought and speech\u00a0really is being\u00a0regulated now among the &#8220;educated&#8221;&#8230;.and the rest of us will soon be caught in the net. Our concentration here is on food&#8230;and nutrition.\u00a0 And this article raises the question of how many people have been killed by &#8220;settled science&#8221;. http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/apr\/07\/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-nutrition","category-on-the-soap-box","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","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=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}