{"id":798,"date":"2007-10-27T03:47:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T07:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/27\/hg-wells-treated-as-actual-science\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T03:51:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T07:51:28","slug":"hg-wells-treated-as-actual-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"HG Wells Treated as Actual Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/technology\/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&amp;in_page_id=1965\">The Daily Mail has this story<\/a>, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/people\/o.s.curry@lse.ac.uk\/\">Dr Oliver Curry<\/a>&#8216;s theory that the human race will split into two different species, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The two will be called, no doubt, the Eloi and the Morlocks&#8230;<br \/>\nThis is worse than the Manbearpigs of Algore&#8217;s global warming, this is plagiarism of FICTION calling itself science. What really takes the cake, though, is Dr Curry&#8217;s research was funded by<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>men&#8217;s satellite TV channel Bravo.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> You know, TV&#8217;s home of such serious scholarship as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, West Wing re-runs and James Lipton. This article is either 6 months early for April Fools Day 08 or 6 months late for this year.<br \/>\nIn case you were wondering:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr Curry&#8217;s research interests are focussed on evolutionary explanations of human nature, especially moral and political thought and behaviour as well as the implications for social sciences especially moral and political theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a pretty good example of the kind of science you get from a Poly-sci prof at an economics school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail has this story, about Dr Oliver Curry&#8216;s theory that the human race will &hellip; <a title=\"HG Wells Treated as Actual Science\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=798\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HG Wells Treated as Actual Science<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}