{"id":682,"date":"2018-12-31T23:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=682"},"modified":"2018-12-31T23:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T23:36:32","slug":"facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Juggernaut_-_Project_Gutenberg_eBook_11921.jpg\"><img width='250' height='394' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/juggernaut.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a>&#8220;Science&#8221; &#8212; testing truth experimentally &#8212; is certainly preferable to telling and believing tall tales. <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not enough to fill the gap the tall tales fill. <\/p>\n<p>The tales are not just about what&#8217;s true but about what&#8217;s right. They mostly get that wrong too, but that&#8217;s where the real work lies &#8212; and &#8220;science&#8221; does not show the way. <\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/dec\/26\/peter-higgs-richard-dawkins-fundamentalism\">Banging on<\/a><\/b> about tales of hell-fire being worse than rape is not showing the way. <\/p>\n<p>Nor is scolding elderly church-goers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Science&#8221; is psychopathic, or at best autistic and actuarial. Ethics is incomparably more important: A planet where people are doing right, even if they are believing tall tales, is infinitely better than a scientistic juggernaut driven only by experimental facts. <\/p>\n<p>And that fact is not a &#8220;scientific&#8221; one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Science&#8221; &#8212; testing truth experimentally &#8212; is certainly preferable to telling and believing tall tales. But that&#8217;s not enough to fill the gap the tall tales fill. The tales are not just about what&#8217;s true but about what&#8217;s right. They mostly get that wrong too, but that&#8217;s where the real work lies &#8212; and &#8220;science&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/facts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}