{"id":944,"date":"2007-04-30T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/30\/landing-on-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T08:59:23","slug":"landing-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/landing-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature magazine has an interesting essay how science works: &#8220;The security of knowing nothing&#8221; is basically arguing that we need to trust other scientists.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;take  it on faith that Genghis Khan defeated the Khwarezmid Empire, that praying mantids moonlight as sexual cannibals, and that man landed on the Moon. There is only so much a person can check: trust is the oxygen of the scientific community.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is my venture capital &#8211; not any particular knowledge but to know whom I can trust. Most of the Nature essay is about other things but at the end it cooncludes that &#8220;the challenge is to deal with liars and cheaters&#8221;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v446\/n7139\/full\/446992a.html\">scienceblog:doi:10.1038\/446992a<\/a><em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In god we trust&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_God_We_Trust\">motto of the United States<\/a> declared by the Congress in 1956.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature magazine has an interesting essay how science works: &#8220;The security of knowing nothing&#8221; is basically arguing that we need to trust other scientists. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.05.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","category-science-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}