{"id":4340,"date":"2009-12-08T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2009-12-08T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:00:22","slug":"no-boy-scout-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4340","title":{"rendered":"No Boy Scout, He"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/sunclipse\/2009\/12\/in_which_i_am_less_than_courte.php\">Science After Sunclipse:  In Which I Am Less Than Courteous<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Chopra&#8217;s] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/deepak-chopra\/the-perils-of-skepticism_b_373788.html\">latest whine<\/a> is typical of what passes for respectable commentary in less-than-critical quarters. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/12\/01\/deepak-chopra-redefining-wrong\/\">Phil Plait<\/a> aptly characterized it as &#8220;almost a bullet-pointed list of logical fallacies&#8221;; if you wanted examples to fill out your <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.com\/wiki\/The_Fine_Art_of_Baloney_Detection\">Baloney Detection Kit<\/a> trading cards, Chopra would be a great place to start. Be the first on your block to collect the whole woo-ful set!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science After Sunclipse: In Which I Am Less Than Courteous [Chopra&#8217;s] latest whine is typical of what passes for respectable commentary in less-than-critical quarters. Phil Plait aptly characterized it as &#8220;almost a bullet-pointed list of logical fallacies&#8221;; if you wanted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4340\">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":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","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=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}