{"id":339,"date":"2008-01-09T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-01-09T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:49:00","slug":"what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"What have you changed your mind about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>SF Gate<\/i> columnist Mark Morford pointed me to this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_index.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">The Edge Annual Question \u2014 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When thinking changes your mind, that&#8217;s philosophy.<br \/>\nWhen God changes your mind, that&#8217;s faith.<br \/>\nWhen facts change your mind, that&#8217;s science.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?<\/p>\n<p>Science is based on evidence. What happens when the data change? How have scientific findings or arguments changed your mind?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>165 &#8220;important&#8221; people answered the question, most of them scientists, but not all&#8211;Alan Alda is one of the respondants, for example. Mark Morford suggests reading the list (or a representative sampling)&#8211;and then answering the question yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SF Gate columnist Mark Morford pointed me to this one: The Edge Annual Question \u2014 2008 &#8220;When thinking changes your mind, that&#8217;s philosophy. When God changes your mind, that&#8217;s faith. When facts change your mind, that&#8217;s science. WHAT HAVE YOU &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}