{"id":618377,"date":"2019-05-24T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618377"},"modified":"2019-05-24T09:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T13:18:01","slug":"phil-plait-how-can-mistakes-lead-to-scientific-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618377","title":{"rendered":"Phil Plait: How Can Mistakes Lead To Scientific Advancement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/tedxboulder_philplait_headshot_wide-16886be9f29b8d497efd4d76372a9b7536da5cca.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Plait\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to scientific research, mistakes are not only part of\u2014but also crucial\u2014to the process. Phil Plait explains how small setbacks can play a critical role in making big discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Phil Plait)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/npr-rss-pixel-1.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/24\/725516852\/phil-plait-how-can-mistakes-lead-to-scientific-advancement?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Plait: How Can Mistakes Lead To Scientific Advancement?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to scientific research, mistakes are not only part of\u2014but also crucial\u2014to the process. Phil Plait explains how small setbacks can play a critical role in making big&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}