{"id":777,"date":"2008-08-08T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T12:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2008-07-24T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:26:18","slug":"science-made-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Science Made Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, Tom Weller&#8217;s <I>Science Made Stupid: How to Discomprehend the World Around Us<\/I> is a parody of high school science textbooks.  The book itself is out of print, but an abridged version (endorsed by the author) is online.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><B>What is Science?<\/B><\/p>\n<p>Put most simply, science is a way of dealing with the world around us. It is a way of baffling the uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. It is a way of achieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.besse.at\/sms\/smsintro.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/presurfer.blogspot.com\/\">The Presurfer<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, Tom Weller&#8217;s Science Made Stupid: How to Discomprehend the World Around Us is a parody of high school science textbooks. The book itself is out of print, but an abridged version (endorsed by the author) is online. What is Science? Put most simply, science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}