{"id":320,"date":"2005-11-11T15:32:21","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T23:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/11\/11\/science-and-honesty\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T23:09:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T07:09:29","slug":"science-and-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/science-and-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> is said to be one of the most influential scientists in modern physics. He <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Hawkings+cosmological+riff\/2100-11395_3-5946857.html?tag=nefd.lede\" target=\"_blank\">delivered a speech<\/a> on Thursday about the prospects of physics ad its implications on science. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of my favorite quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen asked about his thoughts on President Bush&#8217;s proposal to put a man on Mars within 10 years, Hawking simply replied: &#8220;Stupid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hawking answered one question with more seriousness than others&#8211;that concerning his feelings about the U.S. government&#8217;s policy on stem-cell research.<\/p>\n<p>In Britain, he said, stem-cell research is seen as a great opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America will be left behind if it doesn&#8217;t change its policy,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s fuzzy science seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/business\/topbusiness\/wpn-54-20050616PollutionProducingPresidentItsNotJustHotAirItsFuzzyScience.html\" target=\"_blank\">everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking is said to be one of the most influential scientists in modern physics. He delivered a speech on Thursday about the prospects of physics ad its implications on science. A couple of my favorite quotes: When asked about his thoughts on President Bush&#8217;s proposal to put a man on Mars within 10 years, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/science-and-honesty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science and Honesty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-5a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}