{"id":10779,"date":"2012-07-28T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=32"},"modified":"2012-07-28T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T15:20:42","slug":"half-of-what-i-say-is-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2012\/07\/28\/half-of-what-i-say-is-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of What I Say is False"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scene is a lecture room in a Medical Faculty of a University. The eminent Professor of Medicine is addressing the students at the end of the last lecture before their final exams.<br \/>\n&#8222;Ladies and gentlemen,&#8220; he says, &#8222;I congratulate you all on completing my course of lectures. I wish you all well in your future honorable profession. That leaves only two more thing to say.<br \/>\n&#8222;The first is this. Half of the things I have taught you as medical facts are, in fact, false!<br \/>\n&#8222;The second is that neither I nor anyone else today knows which half!&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene is a lecture room in a Medical Faculty of a University. The eminent Professor of Medicine is addressing the students at the end of the last lecture before their final exams. &#8222;Ladies and gentlemen,&#8220; he says, &#8222;I congratulate you all on completing my course of lectures. I wish you all well in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}