{"id":10437,"date":"2011-12-05T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10437"},"modified":"2011-12-05T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:00:31","slug":"the-best-defense-is-a-good-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10437","title":{"rendered":"The Best Defense is a Good Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203935604577066183761315576.html\">The Great Global Warming Fizzle<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term &#8220;climate change&#8221; when thermometers don&#8217;t oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other &#8220;deniers.&#8221; And as with religion, it is susceptible to the earthly temptations of money, power, politics, arrogance and deceit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any time science gets compared to religion it just, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0002074\/\">Dean Keaton<\/a> might say, makes me tired all over.  It&#8217;s where you go when you can&#8217;t actually discuss science, because you have nothing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Global Warming Fizzle As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term &#8220;climate change&#8221; when thermometers don&#8217;t oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-environment","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}