{"id":3693,"date":"2010-03-01T03:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2010-03-01T03:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:09:17","slug":"things-to-ponder-only-trust-us-overcoming-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/01\/things-to-ponder-only-trust-us-overcoming-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Ponder :: Only Trust Us :: Overcoming Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nIf the new principle is that we mustn\u2019t publish research not funded by groups committed to proving our official beliefs, how long before \u201cour\u201d beliefs exclude yours?  How long before interdisciplinary journals like Science or Nature refuse to publish papers by economists, known for their suspiciously right-wing leanings, unless non-economist co-authors vouch for them?  Do you really think that can\u2019t happen?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/02\/onlytrustus.html\">Overcoming Bias : Only Trust Us<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the new principle is that we mustn\u2019t publish research not funded by groups committed to proving our official beliefs, how long before \u201cour\u201d beliefs exclude yours? How long before interdisciplinary journals like Science or Nature refuse to publish papers by economists, known for their suspiciously right-wing leanings, unless non-economist co-authors vouch for them? Do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/01\/things-to-ponder-only-trust-us-overcoming-bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things to Ponder :: Only Trust Us :: Overcoming Bias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}