{"id":6569,"date":"2010-09-16T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6569"},"modified":"2010-09-16T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:51","slug":"legislating-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6569","title":{"rendered":"Legislating Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/independent-in-rochester\/senate-set-to-slam-science\">Senate set to slam science<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are certainly ample political reasons to sometimes ignore science. Fine. Say that. But discounting or demonizing science for political ends needs to stop. Science is not subject to legislation. It&#8217;s one thing to make the case that we cannot afford to deal with greenhouse gasses right now. It&#8217;s another entirely to claim greenhouse gasses are not putting us at risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate set to slam science There are certainly ample political reasons to sometimes ignore science. Fine. Say that. But discounting or demonizing science for political ends needs to stop. Science is not subject to legislation. It&#8217;s one thing to make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6569\">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":[16,40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569","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=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}