{"id":1848,"date":"2019-12-02T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2019-12-02T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:42:39","slug":"the-inhumanity-of-science-concerns-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"The inhumanity of science concerns me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/books\/titles\/138371891\/the-bedside-book-of-birds-an-avian-miscellany#excerpt\">The Bedside Book of Birds : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 28, 1854, William David Thoreau, who earned some of his keep by collecting specimens for science, wrote in his diary: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The <strong>inhumanity of science concerns me<\/strong>, as when I am tempted to kill a rare snake that I may ascertain its species. I feel that <strong>this is not the means<\/strong> of acquiring true knowledge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel this way about banding, as well. I understand the defense of the practice but wonder if we can&#8217;t move on to less intrusive observations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bedside Book of Birds : NPR On May 28, 1854, William David Thoreau, who earned some of his keep by collecting specimens for science, wrote in his diary: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The inhumanity of science concerns me, as when I am tempted to kill a rare snake that I may ascertain its species. I feel that this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The inhumanity of science concerns me<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}