{"id":1208,"date":"2011-04-18T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/18\/the-science-of-why-we-dont-believe-science\/"},"modified":"2011-04-18T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:50:00","slug":"the-science-of-why-we-dont-believe-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/18\/the-science-of-why-we-dont-believe-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/denial-science-chris-mooney'>The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/files\/imagecache\/mobile-master\/truth_425x320.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"218\" width=\"290\" \/>A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell  him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he  questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Your self deluding brain allows you to continue with some bizarre beliefs in the face of evidence and reason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science of Why We Don&#8217;t Believe Science A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}