{"id":138,"date":"2011-05-30T04:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2011-05-30T04:49:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T11:49:23","slug":"carl-sagan-can-change-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/carl-sagan-can-change-his-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan can change his mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In science it often happens that scientists say, &#8216;You know that&#8217;s a  really good argument; my position is mistaken,&#8217; and then they would  actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them  again. They really do it. It doesn&#8217;t happen as often as it should,  because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it  happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that  happened in politics or religion.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP address<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In science it often happens that scientists say, &#8216;You know that&#8217;s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,&#8217; and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/30\/carl-sagan-can-change-his-mind\/\">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":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qtAj-2e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/econscience.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}