{"id":827,"date":"2013-02-27T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T17:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=827"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:39:02","slug":"make-up-any-old-nonsense-and-watch-it-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=827","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Make up any old nonsense&#8217; and watch it spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Feb. 27, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe difficulties in debunking blatant antireality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to show why it\u2019s wrong and how things really are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThis is coupled with how sticky bunk can be. Once uttered, it\u2019s out there, bootstrapping its own reality, getting repeated by the usual suspects&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/01\/14\/no_global_warming_for_16_years_debunking_climate_change_denial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Debunking the Denial<\/em><\/a><em>: \u201816 Years of No Global Warming\u2019\u201d by Phil Plait at Slate.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 27, 2013 \u201cThe difficulties in debunking blatant antireality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to show why it\u2019s wrong and how things really are. \u201cThis is coupled with how sticky bunk can be. Once uttered, it\u2019s out there, bootstrapping [&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-827","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\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}