{"id":1592,"date":"2011-09-07T09:46:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2011-09-07T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T08:48:00","slug":"quote-273-how-to-think-about-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/09\/07\/quote-273-how-to-think-about-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #273: How To Think About Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Knowledge is potentially infinite. What we can attend to at a given moment is severely limited. So there&#8217;s always a question as to what will count as knowledge in a given context, and another about who will decide what counts. These questions &#8230;.are almost always properly political, that is they require a judgement about what is good, a judgement which the scientist is no more competent to render than any other citizen.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">David Cayley, discussing the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancs.ac.uk\/fass\/faculty\/profiles\/Brian-Wynne\/Sociology\/\">Brian Wynne<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ideas\/episodes\/2009\/01\/02\/how-to-think-about-science-part-1---24-listen\">Episode 10 of CBC&#8217;s How To Think About Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Knowledge is potentially infinite. What we can attend to at a given moment is severely limited. So there&#8217;s always a question as to what will count as knowledge in a given context, and another about who will decide what counts. These questions &#8230;.are almost always properly political, that is they require a judgement about what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-pG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}