{"id":629,"date":"2007-02-02T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/are-science-blogs-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2008-06-21T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T07:52:45","slug":"are-science-blogs-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/are-science-blogs-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Are science blogs dangerous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.amnesty.org\/library\/Index\/ENGMDE120042007\">Amnesty International<\/a> reports that an Egyptian blogger is now facing up to 10 years in prison for criticizing Egypt&#8217;s religious authorities. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wirtschaft\/0,1518,458039,00.html\">German blogger<\/a> writing about constructing buses in China even faced an invitation to a court in Bejing. And everybody knows of <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsky.journalspace.com\/\">Ellen Simonetti<\/a> becoming famous for being fired by Delta.<br \/>\nA major difference of blogs to accredited journalism is also the limited capacity to respond to any prosecution: I don&#8217;t have any money for a lawyer while newspapers and journals can hire dozens.<br \/>\nSure, science blogs are much less intrusive but there is always a risk that the empire will strike back; 99% of grant and paper reviews are anonymous.<br \/>\nBUT, there are good news &#8211; the blog community is large and always alert. As a science blooger writing on bad science you can now even get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss.org.uk\/journalismaward\">nice prizes<\/a> &#8211; gratulations to Ben. Don&#8217;t forget that all students arriving in your lab have read your weblog first.<br \/>\nRefraining from all activities also involves some risk, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International reports that an Egyptian blogger is now facing up to 10 years in prison for criticizing Egypt&#8217;s religious authorities. A German blogger writing about constructing buses in China even faced an invitation to a court in Bejing. And everybody knows of Ellen Simonetti becoming famous for being fired by Delta. A major difference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/are-science-blogs-dangerous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are science blogs dangerous?<\/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],"tags":[1928,1927,1925,1929,1930,1926],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-amnesty","tag-bad-science","tag-ellen-simonetti","tag-journalism","tag-lawyer","tag-religious-authorities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}