{"id":1205,"date":"2014-04-05T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T17:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T21:09:59","slug":"did-replay-of-salem-prove-human-progress-is-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Did replay of Salem prove human progress is &#8216;myth&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140405JohnGray.jpg\" alt=\"140405JohnGray\" width=\"260\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140405JohnGray.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140405JohnGray-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>April 5, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOutside of science, progress is simply a myth.\u2026 In science the growth of knowledge is cumulative. But human life as a whole is not a cumulative activity; what is gained in one generation may be lost in the next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=FS2HGwAU_zkC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=straw+dogs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=sOD_Ucm8BoTu8ASYn4H4Bw&amp;ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=straw%20dogs&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Straw Dogs<\/em><\/a><em>: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals\u201d (2002)\u00a0by John Gray, British political philosopher<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">An arguable proposition, certainly \u2013 but how else to explain the widespread acceptance of day-care ritual-abuse claims 300 years after the Salem Witch Trials? As noted by sociologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=607\">David G. Bromley<\/a>,\u00a0this chronic failure to learn-and-remember makes inevitable yet more moral panics \u2013 whatever their specifics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">And how else to explain this just-published<a href=\"http:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-witch-hunt-narrative-9780199931224?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0revisionist history<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2014 \u201cOutside of science, progress is simply a myth.\u2026 In science the growth of knowledge is cumulative. But human life as a whole is not a cumulative activity; what is gained in one generation may be lost in the next.\u201d \u2013 From \u201cStraw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals\u201d (2002)\u00a0by John Gray, [&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-1205","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\/1205","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=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}