{"id":270,"date":"2007-11-08T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/08\/physical-insights\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:32:23","slug":"physical-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/physical-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lest any\u00adone think that phys\u00adi\u00adcists don\u2019t care about the real world, Bob Park pub\u00adlishes a short weekly news\u00adlet\u00adter that touches on sub\u00adjects ran\u00adging from sci\u00adentif\u00adic hoaxes to incon\u00adsist\u00aden\u00adcies in the way the U.S. Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion handles vari\u00adous issues. It mostly con\u00adcen\u00adtrates on sci\u00adence and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, but not only. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bobpark.physics.umd.edu\/WN07\/wn102607.html\">Fri\u00adday, Octo\u00adber 26, 2007<\/a> news\u00adlet\u00adter also dis\u00adcusses the suc\u00adcess\u00adful meth\u00adods <span class=\"caps\">WWII<\/span> sol\u00addiers used to inter\u00adrog\u00adate Nazis, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/bobpark.physics.umd.edu\/WN07\/wn110207.html\">Fri\u00adday, Novem\u00adber 2, 2007<\/a> news\u00adlet\u00adter includes the quote \u201cJohn Mar\u00adbur\u00adger, head of the White House sci\u00adence office, real\u00adized that the situ\u00adation she described was ser\u00adi\u00adous; decis\u00adive action was needed at once \u2014 so he deleted half the report.&nbsp;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tagline on the site is <q>Opin\u00adions are the author\u2019s and are not neces\u00adsar\u00adily shared by the Uni\u00adver\u00adsity, but they should be<\/q>. I\u2019ve been read\u00ading the news\u00adlet\u00adter for years and it\u2019s always been interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Pro\u00adfess\u00ador Park also wrote a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195147103?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=anyway-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0195147103\">Voo\u00addoo Sci\u00adence: The Road from Fool\u00adish\u00adness to Fraud<\/a>, that neatly debunks a lot of hoax (or mis\u00adguided, to be more char\u00adit\u00adable) sci\u00adence in a read\u00adable&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest any\u00adone think that phys\u00adi\u00adcists don\u2019t care about the real world, Bob Park pub\u00adlishes a short weekly news\u00adlet\u00adter that touches on sub\u00adjects ran\u00adging from sci\u00adentif\u00adic hoaxes to incon\u00adsist\u00aden\u00adcies in the way the U.S. Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion handles vari\u00adous issues. It mostly con\u00adcen\u00adtrates on sci\u00adence and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, but not only. The Fri\u00adday, Octo\u00adber 26, 2007 news\u00adlet\u00adter also dis\u00adcusses \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/physical-insights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cPhys\u00adic\u00adal Insights\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}