{"id":71532,"date":"2012-06-21T00:44:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2012-06-21T00:44:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:44:36","slug":"the-erasmus-path-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/21\/the-erasmus-path-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Erasmus path in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/220px-Holbein-erasmus1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16952\" title=\"220px-Holbein-erasmus\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/220px-Holbein-erasmus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a>I just received a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1610391640\/geneexpressio-20\">Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left<\/a>. As I now have some marginal time I&#8217;ll probably be reviewing it in concert with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1118094514\/geneexpressio-20\">The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science&#8211;and Reality<\/a>, in the near future. Of all the intellectual activities in my life my striving toward a better appreciation of the shape of reality which science outlines for us has always been of the first rank. I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STEM_fields\">&#8220;STEM&#8221;<\/a> orientation before I even knew what that stood for. <strong>But I part from the culture of science as it is in that my politics are not with sympathy with the Left.<\/strong> In most cases this is not relevant, but it does loom relatively large in the number of instances where normative considerations conflict with scientific possibilities. I have expressed my frustration with this in the past. In general I believe that most scientists are less open to genetic dispositions in behavior than they would otherwise be because genetic dispositions seem rather unsavory on normative grounds (that is, the <em>Zeitgeist <\/em>of Left-liberalism in the &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/ybzlLUBFBHQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a copy of Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left. As I now have some marginal time I&#8217;ll probably be reviewing it in concert with the The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Sci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71568,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71532\/revisions\/71568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}