{"id":3872,"date":"2013-08-20T00:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2013-08-20T01:09:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:09:38","slug":"2012-isaac-asimov-debate-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3872","title":{"rendered":"2012 Isaac Asimov Debate - Shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was speedily browsing through this 1:45 hour video, I was suddenly stunned by Dr. David Cline of UCLA's response to a Q&amp;A [@ 1:29:00]:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2012 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Faster Than the Speed of Light\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qlLW60wOjo?start=5340&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cline: [paraphrasing] <em>At UCLA, most of my graduate students are Chinese, this is because very few Americans...BTW, the Chinese government has done a very smart thing by sending its students here. Not nearly enough Americans are going into science...<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to a liberal questioner who wants to talk about the possibility of certain impossibility of scientific breakthroughs. Cline's response seems to target at most Americans who love Hollywood effects rather than real science.<\/p>\n<p>The antagonist of Cline in the debate, Dr. Laura Patrizii of University of Bologna, ended the show with \"No comment\" to the question on scientific management of the 2 month mistake regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly\" target=\"_blank\">faster-than-light neutrino anomaly<\/a>. From Patrizii's behavior and gesture, Italian accent aside, I conclude that she's hyper anxious for crackpot results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was speedily browsing through this 1:45 hour video, I was suddenly stunned by Dr. David Cline of UCLA's response to a Q&amp;A [@ 1:29:00]: Cline: [paraphrasing] At UCLA, most of my graduate students are Chinese, this is because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}