{"id":655,"date":"2008-08-13T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=655"},"modified":"2008-08-13T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T20:09:21","slug":"if-you-build-it-they-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/655","title":{"rendered":"If You Build It, They Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2008\/08\/cities_play_hardball_to_host_b.html\">Cities play hardball to host biodefence lab<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disregarded the advice of carefully selected experts to put a Flora, Mississippi, site on the shortlist of candidates, the Associated Press said Monday.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nNow, other applicants are crying foul. \u201cIt is very suspicious,\u201d said Irwin Goldman, whose Madison, Wisconsin, site failed to make the cut. State representative Marti Crow (D) of Leavenworth, Kansas, was angry that Flora\u2019s score of 81 beat out Leavenworth\u2019s 92 for a spot on the shortlist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, what?  Biodefence lab?  Mississippi?  Kansas?  How about a rule that any state that&#8217;s recently tried to derail the teaching of evolution or promote creationism\/intelligent design doesn&#8217;t get a frikkin&#8217; federally-funded <em>biology lab<\/em> in their state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities play hardball to host biodefence lab The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disregarded the advice of carefully selected experts to put a Flora, Mississippi, site on the shortlist of candidates, the Associated Press said Monday. [&#8230;] Now, other applicants &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/655\">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":[3,35,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-other-science","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}