{"id":4275,"date":"2009-01-06T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2009\/01\/06\/kuhn-anamolies-and-those-pesky-homeopaths"},"modified":"2009-01-06T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T10:50:00","slug":"kuhn-anamolies-and-those-pesky-homeopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2009\/01\/06\/kuhn-anamolies-and-those-pesky-homeopaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuhn, Anamolies, and those pesky Homeopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/Pages\/mapsdescriptors.aspx?moduleCode=RPE201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RPE201 (Philosophy, Science and Belief) <\/a>may enjoy the piece at <a href=\"http:\/\/apgaylard.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/03\/expect-the-unexpected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/apgaylard.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/03\/expect-the-unexpected\/<\/a> which discusses how to make sense of the role of anomalous results \/ findings in the context of Kuhn&#8217;s thought.<\/p>\n<p>It also makes reference to the way that homeopathy has tended to mis-use scientific ideas (see <a href=\"http:\/\/badscience.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">badscience.net<\/a> for some excellent material on this, and the role of evidence, risk and the like in science). If  you want to understand more about evidence-based medicine and the problem with homeopathy &#8211; there is a fuller piece at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2007\/11\/a-kind-of-magic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2007\/11\/a-kind-of-magic\/<\/a> which is well worth a read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who enjoyed RPE201 (Philosophy, Science and Belief) may enjoy the piece at http:\/\/apgaylard.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/03\/expect-the-unexpected\/ which discusses how to make sense of the role of anomalous results \/ findings in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,254,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeopathy","category-kuhn","category-science"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}