{"id":70203,"date":"2019-03-11T06:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70203"},"modified":"2019-03-11T06:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:24:50","slug":"settled-science-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70203","title":{"rendered":"Settled Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone refers to &#8220;settled science&#8221;, I can be almost certain I&#8217;m talking with someone who doesn&#8217;t understand how science works.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I talk with someone who tries to apply the concept to psychology, I know that, beyond a profound lack of understanding of the discipline, I&#8217;m dealing with someone who has never had the faintest twitch of curiosity about the history of the field.<\/p>\n<p>I pondered that last night as I listened to this piece, about how sixty years ago, the elite of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/317\/unconditional-love\/prologue-0\">contemporary psychology believed that showing inordinate affection and love to ones&#8217; children would damage them profoundly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever someone refers to &#8220;settled science&#8221;, I can be almost certain I&#8217;m talking with someone who doesn&#8217;t understand how science works. Whenever I talk with someone who tries to apply the concept to psychology, I know that, beyond a profound lack of understanding of the discipline, I&#8217;m dealing with someone who has never had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70207,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70203\/revisions\/70207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}