{"id":25784,"date":"2014-08-21T09:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=25784"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:31:56","slug":"the-fourth-law-of-thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/08\/21\/the-fourth-law-of-thermodynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"The fourth law of thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PainPoint\/status\/472174214271627264\" target=\"_blank\">noted this on twitter from a number of people<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4th Law of Thermodynamics: The amount of energy required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than that required to create it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dealing with some of the comments on this blog is ample evidence that this is true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted this on twitter from a number of people: 4th Law of Thermodynamics: The amount of energy required to refute bullshit is an order<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/08\/21\/the-fourth-law-of-thermodynamics\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}