{"id":22,"date":"2018-07-05T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/193.61.4.225\/rationalargument\/blog\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2018-10-15T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:55:50","slug":"welcome-to-the-found-arguments-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Found Arguments blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-57 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/foudarg_img-500x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/foudarg_img-500x330.jpg 500w, http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/foudarg_img-768x507.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/foudarg_img-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rational-arg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"recent_posts_front_page\">\n<h2>\u00a0Recent Posts<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/a-phd-should-be-about-improving-society-not-chasing-academic-kudos\/\">A PhD should be about improving society, not chasing academic kudos.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Implicit in this recent article is the often heard argument that for science to be more relevant, or more clearly benefit society, individual research projects need to be scrutinized for their societal impact. In other words, if we want to increase the benefit of science to society, we need to increase the direct benefit of [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/12\/scrap-the-iran-deal-because-it-only-offers-weak-protection\/\">Scrap the Iran deal because it only offers weak protection<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cThe deal has failed to live up to the original goal of the international community when talks with Tehran started: to stop Iran from ever getting nuclear weapons. Instead, at best, the current deal only delays it by 10-15 years.\u201d This is an interesting argument which has cropped up repeatedly in the context of debate [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/06\/jaguar-land-rover-and-the-potential-consequences-of-a-bad-brexit\/\">Jaguar Land Rover and the potential consequences of a \u201cbad Brexit\u201d<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Yesterday, the CEO of Jaguar Land Rover took the unusual step of issuing a public statement about the potential consequences of Brexit, the UK\u2019s departure from the EU, if no satisfactory deal is reached. In his statement, he claims that \u201cA bad Brexit deal would cost Jaguar Land Rover more than \u00a31.2bn profit each year\u201d [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/24\/\">We have a finite environment\u2014the planet<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201cWe have a finite environment\u2014the planet. Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.\u201d The slogan \u201cyou can\u2019t have infinite growth on a finite planet\u201d or \u201cwith finite resources\u201d is a catchy one that sums up a concern about the planet\u2019s limited resources [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Recent Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rational-argument.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}