{"id":35,"date":"2006-10-31T15:32:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T13:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/truth-in-research\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T09:16:30","slug":"truth-in-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/truth-in-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth in science (and religion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent interview of Jane Glitschier in <a href=\"http:\/\/genetics.plosjournals.org\/perlserv\/?request=get-document&#038;doi=10.1371\/journal.pgen.0010076\">PLoS genetics<\/a> with Tom Cech nicely shows the relationship of truth and research: &#8220;There is a search for absolute truth in research. You never get there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut there are criteria by which you judge how close you are. You&#8217;re always criticizing yourself and criticizing your colleagues, and they&#8217;re criticizing you. And there is a test, very often, that you can do to decide who&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Addendum<\/h3>\n<p>Here is a difference between science and religion &#8212; Jesus told his disciples, &#8220;I am the way and the truth and the life&#8221; (John 14:6). Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent interview of Jane Glitschier in PLoS genetics with Tom Cech nicely shows the relationship of truth and research: &#8220;There is a search for absolute truth in research. You never get there\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut there are criteria by which you judge how close you are. You&#8217;re always criticizing yourself and criticizing your colleagues, and they&#8217;re criticizing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/truth-in-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Truth in science (and religion)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[13,2946,2951],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-science-theology","tag-history-insights","tag-philosophy-of-science","tag-science-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}