{"id":1087,"date":"2012-02-06T20:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/02\/what_is_science\/"},"modified":"2012-02-06T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T07:16:28","slug":"what-is-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/02\/what-is-science\/","title":{"rendered":"what is science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;That&#8217;s a question that many science blog-posts examine, implicitly if not explicitly. I do it here (quite a lot, recently!) when writing about various pseudo-scientific claims, &amp; the same goes on over at <a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/\">Sciblogs NZ<\/a>. It&#8217;s an interesting question that sometimes receives rather slick, glib answers.<\/p>\n<p>Over at Science-Based Medicine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/index.php\/what-is-science\/#more-19027\">Kimball Atwood has written a particularly good discussion around the &#8216;what is science?&#8217; question<\/a>, including an explanation of why many of those glib answers are based on a mis-characterisation, or a mis-understanding, of the nature of science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(I really enjoyed reading it. But now &#8211; I must get back to revising my study guides!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;That&#8217;s a question that many science blog-posts examine, implicitly if not explicitly. I do it here (quite a lot, recently!) when writing about various pseudo-scientific claims, &amp; the same goes on over at Sciblogs NZ. It&#8217;s an interesting question that sometimes receives rather slick, glib answers. Over at Science-Based Medicine, Kimball Atwood has written a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[3,10],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>what is science? : BioBlog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/02\/what-is-science\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"what is science? : BioBlog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp;That&#8217;s a question that many science blog-posts examine, implicitly if not explicitly. 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