{"id":1686,"date":"2008-08-14T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2008-08-19T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T09:57:50","slug":"dissent-over-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/08\/dissent-over-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissent over descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a free copy of the Lancet at the moment, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140673608611800\/fulltext\">a nice book review<\/a> about &#8220;Dissent over Descent&#8221; by Steven Rose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[He] takes a pleasure, which in part I share, in puncturing the often hyperbolic claims of natural scientists to be unimpeachable purveyors of absolute truth<!--more--> about the world in which we live. Like others in his discipline, he is fascinated by heretics who challenge scientific orthodoxy. This pursuit has led him to take a special interest in the assault by proponents of so-called intelligent design on the scientific consensus around Darwinian evolutionary theory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is also a pleasure that I share, yea, yea, and the reason why I have ordered this book.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a free copy of the Lancet at the moment, I found a nice book review about &#8220;Dissent over Descent&#8221; by Steven Rose. [He] takes a pleasure, which in part I share, in puncturing the often hyperbolic claims of natural scientists to be unimpeachable purveyors of absolute truth &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.05.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[2016,2014,2017,2015],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-science-theology","tag-absolute-truth","tag-darwinian-evolutionary-theory","tag-intelligent-design","tag-natural-scientists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}