{"id":36304,"date":"2021-05-10T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=36304"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:09:31","slug":"the-phrase-follow-the-science-has-a-false-ring-to-it-that-is-because-science-doesnt-lead-anywhere-it-can-illuminate-various-courses-of-action-by-quantifying-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=36304","title":{"rendered":"`The phrase \u201cfollow the science\u201d has a false ring to it. That is because science doesn\u2019t lead anywhere. It can #illuminate various courses of #action, by quantifying the risks and specifying the #tradeoffs. But it can\u2019t make the necessary #choices for us.`"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">`The phrase \u201cfollow the science\u201d has a false ring to it. That is because science doesn\u2019t lead anywhere. It can <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/illuminate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#illuminate<\/a> various courses of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/action?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#action<\/a>, by quantifying the risks and specifying the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tradeoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tradeoffs<\/a>. But it can\u2019t make the necessary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/choices?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#choices<\/a> for us.`<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1391786912374005764?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 12:07PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>`The phrase \u201cfollow the science\u201d has a false ring to it. That is because science doesn\u2019t lead anywhere. It can #illuminate various courses of #action, by quantifying the risks and specifying the #tradeoffs. But it can\u2019t make the necessary #choices for us.` &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) May 10, 2021 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers May 10, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=36304\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">`The phrase \u201cfollow the science\u201d has a false ring to it. That is because science doesn\u2019t lead anywhere. It can #illuminate various courses of #action, by quantifying the risks and specifying the #tradeoffs. But it can\u2019t make the necessary #choices for us.`<\/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-36304","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\/36304","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=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36305,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions\/36305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}