{"id":789,"date":"2008-09-14T04:54:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T09:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=789"},"modified":"2008-09-14T04:54:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T09:54:54","slug":"this-isnt-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/789","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#039;t The Onion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, wait.  It&#8217;s just the time-honored (sorry, <em>honoured<\/em>) tradition of writing a headline that has the opposite implication than the actual story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/7612152.stm\">Call for creationism in science<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Michael Reiss says that if pupils have strongly-held beliefs about creationism these should be explored.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than dismissing creationism as a &#8220;misconception&#8221;, he says it should be seen as a cultural &#8220;world view&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers should take the time to explain why creationism had no scientific basis, Prof Reiss said.<br \/>\nHe stressed that the topic should not be taught as science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I can see how summing that up should be worded as a call for teaching creationism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, wait. It&#8217;s just the time-honored (sorry, honoured) tradition of writing a headline that has the opposite implication than the actual story. Call for creationism in science Professor Michael Reiss says that if pupils have strongly-held beliefs about creationism these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/789\">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":[3,24,35],"tags":[105,167],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-journalism","category-other-science","tag-bad-journalism","tag-creationism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}