{"id":12201,"date":"2012-08-17T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2012-08-17T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:00:07","slug":"dont-bother-me-with-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12201","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t Bother Me With the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such as the definition of <em>theory<\/em> in a scientific context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/481214\/kentucky-gop-outraged-colleges-want-students-to-know-things\">KENTUCKY GOP OUTRAGED COLLEGES WANT STUDENTS TO KNOW THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ACT, the state\u2019s testing company, interviews professors to figure out the things most important to student readiness for college, which sounds like a smart thing to do. Unfortunately, those professors have bad news: If you want students to do well in biology classes, they have to know about <em>evolution<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how the Kentucky politicians equated <em>not teaching evolution<\/em> with <em>better critical thinking skills<\/em>, but I&#8217;m not surprised they don&#8217;t see the problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such as the definition of theory in a scientific context. KENTUCKY GOP OUTRAGED COLLEGES WANT STUDENTS TO KNOW THINGS ACT, the state\u2019s testing company, interviews professors to figure out the things most important to student readiness for college, which sounds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12201\">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":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201","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=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}