{"id":2519,"date":"2011-10-27T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2011-10-27T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T17:45:53","slug":"from-the-comments-not-all-opinions-on-anthropology-are-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/27\/from-the-comments-not-all-opinions-on-anthropology-are-equal\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Comments: Not All Opinions on Anthropology Are Equal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2520\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Is anthropology a science? Scientists say yes, according to a University of Florida professor.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Scientists.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2520\" title=\"Scientists\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Scientists-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Scientists-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Scientists-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/Scientists.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr \/ Argonne National Laboratory<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is anthropology a science? Scientists say yes, according to a University of Florida professor.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A commenter, citing a letter from a University of Florida anthropology professor, responds to the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/24\/gov-scott-not-apologizing-to-anthropologists\/\">ongoing conversation<\/a> about whether anthropology is a STEM study.<\/p>\n<p>The opinions of the groups assessing anthropology should not be treated equally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, there are scientific organizations, institutions built, managed<br \/>\nand participated in by a broad spectrum of scientists, united in the<br \/>\nuse of scientific methodologies and theoretical structures for data<br \/>\ngathering and analysis to test the hypotheses and theories. Mentioned<br \/>\nin the Truth-O-Meter article is one: the National Science Foundation,<br \/>\nwhose personnel is largely comprised of actual scientists. NSF is a<br \/>\npowerful arbiter STEM scientific research because it manages the<br \/>\ndistribution of public monies in support of scientific endeavors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second: the other agencies mentioned by<br \/>\nTruth-O-Meter as arbiters of scientific standing are not scientific<br \/>\norganizations, but bureaucratic ones, in which some scientists<br \/>\nparticipate but are agencies subject to political whims, preferences and<br \/>\noften the selective utilization of factual materials responding to<br \/>\nthose who establish them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scientist-led groups believe anthropology is a STEM field, the professor writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commenter, citing a letter from a University of Florida anthropology professor, responds to the ongoing conversation about whether anthropology is a STEM study. The opinions of the groups assessing anthropology should not be treated equally: First, there are scientific organizations, institutions built, managed and participated in by a broad spectrum of scientists, united in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1070,1027,1082],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}