{"id":2976,"date":"2017-01-28T01:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T08:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2017-01-28T01:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T08:38:32","slug":"the-science-is-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2017\/01\/28\/the-science-is-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science is Clear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone distressed by the amount of distrust of real science in the world today need only look at the overstated (and actually false) headline in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2017\/01\/27\/torture-science-efficacy\/\">this bit of &#8220;science&#8221; journalism<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>to find an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course torture doesn&#8217;t always work. And it very likely would only rarely\u00a0be the most effective way of getting information. But I can tell you for sure that it <em>can<\/em>\u00a0sometimes work because I know that there are circumstances in which it would work on me.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s in the article is mostly not false<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enhanced interrogation techniques often lead to unreliable information; instead, we might want to follow the lead of a noted &#8220;nice-guy&#8221; Nazi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but it does not support the headline. And regardless of what the authors intended,\u00a0that headline stands as the position of a self-styled &#8220;science&#8221; magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/d-brief\/2017\/01\/27\/torture-science-efficacy\/\">The Science is Clear, Torture Doesn&#8217;t Work &#8211; D-brief<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone distressed by the amount of distrust of real science in the world today need only look at the overstated (and actually false) headline in this bit of &#8220;science&#8221; journalism\u00a0to find an explanation. Of course torture doesn&#8217;t always work. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2017\/01\/28\/the-science-is-clear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}