{"id":366,"date":"2003-04-12T14:55:58","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=366"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"its_all_thanks_to_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/12\/its_all_thanks_to_science\/","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s All Thanks to Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/opinion\/story\/0,12981,928170,00.html\">Matt Ridley<\/a>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/opinion\/story\/0,12981,928170,00.html\">\n\n<p>\n\nFar from imprisoning us in fate, self knowledge about the causes of our behaviour will liberate people to make choices: as the philosopher Daniel Dennett argues, more knowledge brings more free will. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n&ldquo;Organic farming is sustainable,&rdquo; says Indian biotechnologist CS Prakash. &ldquo;It sustains poverty and malnutrition.&rdquo;\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you asked intellectuals at almost any time since Malthus to talk about the future, they would have been pessimistic and they would have been wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrykindall.com\/2003\/april.asp#7\">Jerry Kindall<\/a>)\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Ridley: Far from imprisoning us in fate, self knowledge about the causes of our behaviour will liberate people to make choices: as the philosopher Daniel Dennett argues, more knowledge brings more free will. &ldquo;Organic farming is sustainable,&rdquo; says Indian biotechnologist CS Prakash. &ldquo;It sustains poverty and malnutrition.&rdquo; If you asked intellectuals at almost any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}