{"id":17421,"date":"2020-11-08T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T19:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=17421"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:54:21","slug":"about-scientific-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2020\/11\/about-scientific-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"About scientific myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural \/ The Seductive Myth by Alan Levinovitz, p 18<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People\u2029 don\u2019t\u2029 just\u2029 live\u2029 by\u2029 archetypal\u2029 myths\u2014they\u2029 are\u2029 constituted\u2029 by them.\u2029 As \u2029the \u2029scholar \u2029of\u2029 myth \u2029Bruce \u2029Lincoln \u2029has \u2029argued,\u2029 myth \u2029is \u2029ideology \u2029in narrative\u2029 form.\u2029Want \u2029to \u2029know \u2029what \u2029someone \u2029stands \u2029for? \u2029Look \u2029to \u2029the\u2029 myths that\u2029 shape\u2029 them.\u2029 Group\u2029 identity,\u2029 from\u2029 religion\u2029 to\u2029 politics,\u2029 depends\u2029 on\u2029 an investment\u2029 in\u2029 a\u2029 few\u2029 foundational\u2029 stories,\u2029 which\u2029 serve\u2029 as\u2029 justifications\u2029 of one\u2019s\u2029 preferred\u2029 moral\u2029 and\u2029 social\u2029 order.\u2029 This\u2029 is\u2029 why\u2029 mythically\u2029 justified beliefs\u2029 are\u2029 so\u2029 resistant\u2029 to\u2029 evidence:\u2029 changing\u2029 them\u2029 means\u2029 changing yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what I think, when colleagues say, that a paper needs a story.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural \/ The Seductive Myth by Alan Levinovitz, p 18 People\u2029 don\u2019t\u2029 just\u2029 live\u2029 by\u2029 archetypal\u2029 myths\u2014they\u2029 are\u2029 constituted\u2029 by them.\u2029 As \u2029the \u2029scholar \u2029of\u2029 myth \u2029Bruce \u2029Lincoln \u2029has \u2029argued,\u2029 myth \u2029is \u2029ideology \u2029in narrative\u2029 form.\u2029Want \u2029to \u2029know \u2029what \u2029someone \u2029stands \u2029for? \u2029Look \u2029to \u2029the\u2029 myths that\u2029 shape\u2029 them.\u2029 Group\u2029 identity,\u2029 from\u2029 religion\u2029 to\u2029 politics,\u2029 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2020\/11\/about-scientific-myths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About scientific myths<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421","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=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17437,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions\/17437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}