{"id":1089,"date":"2013-10-04T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T10:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:54:34","slug":"satanic-ritual-abuse-exemplified-counterknowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Satanic ritual abuse exemplified &#8216;counterknowledge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Oct. 4, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe essence of counterknowledge is that it purports to be knowledge but is not knowledge. Its claims can be shown to be untrue, either because there are facts that contradict them or because there is no evidence to support them. It misrepresents reality (deliberately or otherwise) by presenting non-facts as facts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe media were pushing the circulation of counterknowledge long before the public hooked up to broadband. Consider, for example, the satanic ritual abuse scare&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=1LZVmClu4W4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=counterknowledge&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=uY8bUrWJCYSy2wX4-IDoBg&amp;ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=counterknowledge&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Counterknowledge<\/em><\/a><em>: How we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history\u201d by Damian Thompson (2008)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 4, 2013 \u201cThe essence of counterknowledge is that it purports to be knowledge but is not knowledge. Its claims can be shown to be untrue, either because there are facts that contradict them or because there is no evidence to support them. It misrepresents reality (deliberately or otherwise) by presenting non-facts as facts&#8230;. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}