{"id":4563,"date":"2010-01-17T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2010-01-17T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T08:00:28","slug":"why-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4563","title":{"rendered":"Why, Indeed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2010\/01\/why-is-the-news-media-comfortable-with-lying-about-science.ars\">Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a news organization had put words in the mouth of a political figure, there would almost certainly be a firestorm of controversy. The same would occur if one had turned to a Hollywood star or sports figure for comment on, say, a Congressional Budget Office report. When it comes to science, however, the response seems to be limited to a few outraged bloggers. It&#8217;s difficult not to think that there&#8217;s a double standard involved in the complete indifference to accuracy when it comes to scientific information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science? If a news organization had put words in the mouth of a political figure, there would almost certainly be a firestorm of controversy. The same would occur if one had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4563\">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":[24,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","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=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}