{"id":2532,"date":"2009-09-14T18:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/09\/14\/if-science-knew-all-the-answers-it-would-stop\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T01:45:58","slug":"if-science-knew-all-the-answers-it-would-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/if-science-knew-all-the-answers-it-would-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"If Science Knew All the Answers, It Would Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kjhealy\">Kieran<\/a> thinks that this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dara_%C3%93_Briain\">Dara \u00d3 Briain<\/a> video would be my cup of tea.  We all know that I am devoted to the ideal of communicative reason between respectful parties speaking in good faith.  None of that tawdry mockery and whacking at people with sticks for me, no sir.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s quite charming; perhaps it&#8217;s the Irish accent.  \u00d3 Briain studied math and theoretical physics at University College Dublin, where he was an officer of the Literary and Historical Society, where I spoke <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/11\/13\/moral-authority\/\">not too long ago<\/a>.  I cannot speculate where the fashion sense came from. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why Kieran thinks that this Dara \u00d3 Briain video would be my cup of tea. We all know that I am devoted to the ideal of communicative reason between respectful parties speaking in good faith. None of that tawdry mockery and whacking at people with sticks for me, no sir. Nevertheless, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}