{"id":1335,"date":"2012-08-14T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T11:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T11:10:48","slug":"then-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/14\/then-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Then again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans didn&#8217;t breed with Neanderthals<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/general-sciences-features\/65398-humans-didnt-breed-with-neanderthals\">http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/general-sciences-features\/65398-humans-didnt-breed-with-neanderthals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems I may have spoken <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/13\/interspecies-sex\/\">too soon<\/a>.  It seems there is a perfectly plausible explanation for the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in our genome: we share common ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>This is how science works, though.  Unfortunately it tends to make ignorant people think that science is incapable of discovering the &#8216;truth&#8217; (it is out there!) and that &#8216;truth&#8217; is malleable by anyone who wants to have a different opinion.  While science gets started as nothing more than opinion, that opinion must be backed up with facts and must explain _all_ the facts that are available, not just a few selected ones.  When someone comes up with a better opinion it is because it better explains the available facts.  Scientists get excited when a &#8216;story&#8217; (opinion) predicts something that is subsequently discovered as a new fact (why Einstein is such a hero).  Sometimes it is very difficult, expensive and\/or time consuming to collect new facts (for instance, all this about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higgs_boson\">Higgs boson<\/a>) and stories are all we have to work with (see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/String_theory\">string theory<\/a> for an example).  When (seemingly willfully) ignorant people claim that science and scientists can&#8217;t agree, they are often discussing areas of research that are novel or where facts are &#8220;difficult, expensive and\/or time consuming to collect&#8221; and thus opinions\/stories are evolving.  Because that sort of research is likely to get the most press, these (willfully) ignorant people then attack any part of science they don&#8217;t agree with (such as evolution) and point to the bits where there is a flux in agreement amongst scientists as justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans didn&#8217;t breed with Neanderthals http:\/\/www.tgdaily.com\/general-sciences-features\/65398-humans-didnt-breed-with-neanderthals It seems I may have spoken too soon. It seems there is a perfectly plausible explanation for the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in our genome: we share common ancestors. This is how science works, though. Unfortunately it tends to make ignorant people think that science is incapable of discovering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/14\/then-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Then again&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}