{"id":56,"date":"2008-02-19T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/56"},"modified":"2008-02-19T21:18:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:18:17","slug":"seriously-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/56","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The red flag proclaiming &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand science&#8221; goes up when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/scienceNews\/idUSN1929595320080219\">story<\/a> sounds something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The panel includes the word &#8220;evolution&#8221; in state science standards for the first time, but it is relegated to a place among a host of ideas, including Albert Einstein&#8217;s theory of relativity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Relegated? To the &#8220;lowly&#8221; place that includes relativity?<\/p>\n<p>I think writing of the phrase &#8220;just a theory&#8221; or &#8220;merely a theory&#8221; in a science article should make one&#8217;s word processor\/computer explode.  If you don&#8217;t understand why, and you&#8217;ve graduated from college, you need to go and <em>ask for your money back<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red flag proclaiming &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand science&#8221; goes up when the story sounds something like this: The panel includes the word &#8220;evolution&#8221; in state science standards for the first time, but it is relegated to a place among a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/56\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}