{"id":1038,"date":"2005-08-23T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2005-08-23T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T14:44:09","slug":"not-even-publishable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/23\/not-even-publishable\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Even Publishable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Woit has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=245\">interesting post<\/a> today on his new book &#8220;Not Even Wrong.&#8221;  In the post Peter describes his zigzag path towards publication of the book and the resistance he encountered.  My favorite part is where Peter describes how during one round of review, he encountered a referee who<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;dealt with the problem of not being able to find anything wrong with what I had written by claiming that arguing against string theory was like arguing against teaching evolution&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only are we going to stop teaching evolution in public high schools science classes, but now we aren&#8217;t  going to teach string theory in these classes as well.  On no!  The horror!  The horror!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Woit has an interesting post today on his new book &#8220;Not Even Wrong.&#8221; In the post Peter describes his zigzag path towards publication of the book and the resistance he encountered. My favorite part is where Peter describes how during one round of review, he encountered a referee who &#8230;dealt with the problem of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/08\/23\/not-even-publishable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Even Publishable?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}