{"id":4043,"date":"2011-08-07T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2011-08-07T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:44:49","slug":"destructive-sides-of-the-power-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"destructive sides of the power of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2011\/08\/HiroshimaIMG_6325Neu-450.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2011\/08\/HiroshimaIMG_6325Neu-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HiroshimaIMG_6325Neu-450\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2011\/08\/HiroshimaIMG_6325Neu-450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2011\/08\/HiroshimaIMG_6325Neu-450-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:80%\">Hiroshima nowadays<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=3147\">commemorating<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki\"> atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki<\/a> two links to recent comments, which I left on the blog Azimuth. One link is to a comment to the new scientist article article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21128236.300-the-carbon-cost-of-germanys-nuclear-nein-danke.html?full=true\"> &#8220;The carbon cost of Germany&#8217;s nuclear &#8216;Nein danke!&#8217; &#8221; <\/a> where I try to explain <a href=\"http:\/\/johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/02\/recommended-reading\/#comment-7056\">why the authors arguments that Germany&#8217;s renunciation of commercial nuclear power generation leads to more carbon output are flawed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second comment is related to the Manhattan project itself but also to the <a href=\"http:\/\/johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/17\/this-weeks-finds-week-316\/#comment-6895\">dangers of biotechnology.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiroshima nowadays For commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki two links to recent comments, which I left on the blog Azimuth. One link is to a comment to the new scientist article article &#8220;The carbon cost of Germany&#8217;s nuclear &#8216;Nein danke!&#8217; &#8221; where I try to explain why the authors arguments that Germany&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}