{"id":36298,"date":"2021-05-10T16:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=36298"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:09:23","slug":"as-a-practical-matter-politicised-science-is-the-only-kind-there-is-but-it-is-precisely-the-apolitical-image-of-science-as-disinterested-arbiter-of-reality-that-makes-it-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=36298","title":{"rendered":"`As a practical matter, \u201cpoliticised science\u201d is the only kind there is&#8230; But it is precisely the #apolitical image of science, as disinterested arbiter of reality, that makes it such a powerful instrument of #politics. This contradiction is now out in the open.`"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">`As a practical matter, \u201cpoliticised science\u201d is the only kind there is&#8230; But it is precisely the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/apolitical?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#apolitical<\/a> image of science, as disinterested arbiter of reality, that makes it such a powerful instrument of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/politics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#politics<\/a>. This contradiction is now out in the open.`<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1391786423074840577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>May 10, 2021 at 12:05PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>`As a practical matter, \u201cpoliticised science\u201d is the only kind there is&#8230; But it is precisely the #apolitical image of science, as disinterested arbiter of reality, that makes it such a powerful instrument of #politics. This contradiction is now out in the open.` &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) May 10, 2021 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers May &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=36298\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">`As a practical matter, \u201cpoliticised science\u201d is the only kind there is&#8230; But it is precisely the #apolitical image of science, as disinterested arbiter of reality, that makes it such a powerful instrument of #politics. This contradiction is now out in the open.`<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-36298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36299,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36298\/revisions\/36299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36298"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=36298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}