{"id":5885,"date":"2013-03-01T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2013-03-01T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:21:25","slug":"the-infantilising-power-dynamic-of-public-engagement-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2013\/03\/01\/the-infantilising-power-dynamic-of-public-engagement-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The infantilising power dynamic of public engagement with science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe rhetoric of wonder is all about encouraging participation. But this infantilising power dynamic is not conducive to confident involvement or critical inquiry. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Righteously snarky CiF, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/mar\/01\/science-science-policy\">Prof Brian Cox: physicist or priest? Many popular scientists are atheist, so why are they so happy to use the misty-eyed language of religion?<\/a> by<br \/>\nEliane Glaser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rhetoric of wonder is all about encouraging participation. But this infantilising power dynamic is not conducive to confident involvement or critical inquiry. Righteously snarky CiF, Prof Brian Cox: physicist or priest? Many popular scientists are atheist, so why are they so happy to use the misty-eyed language of religion? by Eliane Glaser<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1wV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885"}],"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=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}