{"id":26158,"date":"2009-03-17T08:37:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/17\/can-society-make-ethical-decis\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T08:37:06","slug":"can-society-make-ethical-decis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/can-society-make-ethical-decis\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Society Make Ethical Decisions Without Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The big risk in practicing science is that you may not like the answer it provides. The previous administration, when faced with results it didn&#8217;t like, decided to censor the results. I don&#8217;t see how this makes any sense. How can a government make decisions and policy when the facts are hidden or discredited based on predetermined biases?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/03\/can-society-make-ethical-decisions-without-science\/\">Read the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big risk in practicing science is that you may not like the answer it provides. The previous administration, when faced with results it didn&#8217;t like, decided to censor the results. I don&#8217;t see how this makes any sense. How can a government make decisions and policy when the facts are hidden or discredited based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/can-society-make-ethical-decis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Society Make Ethical Decisions Without Science?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6NU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}