{"id":13269,"date":"2015-05-27T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:07:06","slug":"from-the-aprilmay-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-its-the-science-stupid-but-for-conservatives-and-progressives-alike-the-science-has-to-fitby-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/from-the-aprilmay-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-its-the-science-stupid-but-for-conservatives-and-progressives-alike-the-science-has-to-fitby-j\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the April\/May Zephyr) Take it or Leave it: \u201cIT\u2019S THE SCIENCE, STUPID!\u201d But for Conservatives and Progressives Alike, the \u2018Science\u2019 has to FIT\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is an inference in this debate, that if one wants to find the heart and soul of backward, uninformed, uneducated, anti-scientific thought, one need not look further than the right-wing Christian, conservative political movement in America.<\/p>\n<p>But those who invoke science as the last word cannot pick and choose its application, any more than a conservative can reject the science out of hand. While \u2018progressives\u2019 mock their conservative cousins for their climate change denial tendencies, there are some<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/01\/30\/americans-increasing-distrust-of-science-and-not-just-on-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\"> inconsistencies and contradictions<\/a>\u2013even hypocrisies\u2014 that need to be explained by<i> them<\/i> as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=7966\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Portland_and_Mt_Hood-e1425409013152.jpg\" alt=\"Portland_and_Mt_Hood\" width=\"550\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=7966\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=<wbr \/>7966<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: There is an inference in this debate, that if one wants to find the heart and soul of backward, uninformed, uneducated, anti-scientific thought, one need not look further than the right-wing Christian, conservative political movement in America. But those who invoke science as the last word cannot pick and choose its application, any more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}