{"id":360,"date":"2023-07-25T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/?p=360"},"modified":"2024-03-20T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T08:03:07","slug":"your-remarkable-pronouncements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Your Remarkable Pronouncements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg\" alt=\"jeff-bezos-founder amazon\" class=\"wp-image-116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jeff-bezos-amazon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jeff-bezos-amazon-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientific rule of thumb is simple: When you make a bold claim, you need significant research to back it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telling us that eating vegetables is healthy can be justified by a fairly simple high school science paper. But if you want to claim that the moon is made of celery and Elmer\u2019s Glue, we\u2019re going to need more than your back-of-the-envelope calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lately, we\u2019re seeing two things begin to take the place of good research when making outrageous claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of online celebrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Particularly bold and noxious claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being angry or a famous podcaster (or both) doesn\u2019t excuse you from the burden of proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific rule of thumb is simple: When you make a bold claim, you need significant research to back it up. Telling us that eating vegetables is healthy can be justified by a fairly simple high school science paper. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/?p=360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[165,164,167,168,169,166,163,162,173,171,175,177,140,172,176,174,157,156,170,146,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/sam-muchai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}