{"id":4588,"date":"2018-04-21T05:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T05:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/why-do-physicists-write-popular-garbage\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T05:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T05:23:44","slug":"why-do-physicists-write-popular-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/why-do-physicists-write-popular-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Physicists Write Popular Garbage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">To make money, and because writing bad philosophy is easy while doing good physics is hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ce6ef7b8-429a-11e8-93cf-67ac3a6482fd\">Latest example<\/a> to come to my attention. It appears in that noted philosophy journal, <em>Financial Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I&#39;ve had it with refuting this crap.&#0160; I <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/07\/this-just-in-there-is-no-now.html\">used to think<\/a> it was worth doing, but no longer.&#0160; It is like evaluating a bad student paper. Where does one start?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make money, and because writing bad philosophy is easy while doing good physics is hard. Latest example to come to my attention. It appears in that noted philosophy journal, Financial Times. I&#39;ve had it with refuting this crap.&#0160; I used to think it was worth doing, but no longer.&#0160; It is like evaluating a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/why-do-physicists-write-popular-garbage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Do Physicists Write Popular Garbage?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}