{"id":1349,"date":"2015-06-19T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:57:17","slug":"science-vs-others-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/19\/science-vs-others-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science vs. Others, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reader <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/18\/science-vs-others-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\">clarifies<\/a> that puzzling paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\" data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$text0:0\">The cultural perfection thing is about misplaced sympathies and the resulting politics. Sort of a &#8220;how dare those scientists despoil the pristine wilderness venerated and carefully cared for for hundreds of years by these sinless original peoples&#8221; &#8212; <\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".7.1:4:1:$comment1088084451219186_1088369297857368:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text0:0\">which draws a lot of sympathy and support from various corners and factions. I&#8217;m pro-science, of course. But I&#8217;m also very pro-environment. Ask me about how much I think there are too many humans on the planet already someday.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reader clarifies that puzzling paragraph: The cultural perfection thing is about misplaced sympathies and the resulting politics. Sort of a &#8220;how dare those scientists despoil the pristine wilderness venerated and carefully cared for for hundreds of years by these sinless original peoples&#8221; &#8212; which draws a lot of sympathy \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/19\/science-vs-others-ctd-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}