{"id":23646,"date":"2024-04-27T05:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:49:03","slug":"scientific-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/04\/scientific-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01216-z\">Jim Baggott<\/a> quotes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/nov\/21\/john-heilbron-obituary\">John Heilbron<\/a>, a Kuhn scholar, on the question what is a scientific myth<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A scientific myth is not produced by accident or error. It requires effort. \u201cTo qualify as a myth, a false claim should be persistent and widespread,\u201d Heilbron said in a 2014 conference talk. \u201cIt should have a plausible and assignable reason for its endurance, and immediate cultural relevance,\u201d he noted. \u201cAlthough erroneous or fabulous, such myths are not entirely wrong, and their exaggerations bring out aspects of a situation, relationship or project that might otherwise be ignored.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 29.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Baggott quotes John Heilbron, a Kuhn scholar, on the question what is a scientific myth A scientific myth is not produced by accident or error. It requires effort. \u201cTo qualify as a myth, a false claim should be persistent and widespread,\u201d Heilbron said in a 2014 conference talk. \u201cIt should have a plausible and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/04\/scientific-myths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","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=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}