{"id":330,"date":"2009-01-03T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2009-01-03T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T21:16:55","slug":"paparazzi-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Paparazzi physics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this term, &#8220;paparazzi physics&#8221;, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciamdigital.com\/\">Scientific American<\/a>. Recently, several papers were published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Payload_for_Antimatter_Matter_Exploration_and_Light-nuclei_Astrophysics\">PAMELA<\/a> result referencing not a published paper, not even an unpublished draft on <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">arxiv.org<\/a>, but photographs of a set of slides that were shown during a conference presentation. An appropriate description! But, I think &#8220;paparazzi physics&#8221; can be used also in a broader sense, describing an alarming trend in the physics community to jump on new results long before they&#8217;re corroborated, in order to prove or disprove a theory, conventional or otherwise.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=330' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this term, &#8220;paparazzi physics&#8221;, in Scientific American. Recently, several papers were published on the PAMELA result referencing not a published paper, not even an unpublished draft on arxiv.org, but photographs of a set of slides that were shown during a conference presentation. An appropriate description! But, I think &#8220;paparazzi physics&#8221; can be <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=330' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}