{"id":983,"date":"2013-12-07T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/?p=983"},"modified":"2013-12-07T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:30:30","slug":"crazy-ants-the-new-york-times-and-the-failure-of-americans-to-support-basic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/2013\/12\/07\/crazy-ants-the-new-york-times-and-the-failure-of-americans-to-support-basic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy ants, the New York Times, and the failure of Americans to support basic research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t see the point of singling out the egghead scientists for being slow to identify\u00a0Nylanderia fulva when the real trouble is bigger and structural. Americans simply don\u2019t value basic research enough to support a system that rapidly pinpoints emerging pest problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we want to quickly identify new pests, we need to salary thousands of positions for taxonomists where rapid response to emerging threats is part of the job. Instead, we\u2019re doing the opposite. Taxonomists are being laid off.\u00a0Congress is defunding science. The result is that when a new problem like invasive crazy ants arises, we depend on retirees and hobbyists to volunteer their expertise, if they want to. As a response to billion-dollar invasions, that\u2019s just not good enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrmecos.net\/2013\/12\/06\/crazy-ants-the-new-york-times-and-the-failure-of-americans-to-support-basic-research\/\">\u2013 Crazy ants, the New York Times, and the failure of Americans to support basic research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t see the point of singling out the egghead scientists for being slow to identify\u00a0Nylanderia fulva when the real trouble is bigger and structural. Americans simply don\u2019t value basic research enough to support a system that rapidly pinpoints emerging pest problems. &#8220;If we want to quickly identify new pests, we need to salary thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-posts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/lifescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}