{"id":299,"date":"2012-02-04T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2012-02-04T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T22:35:00","slug":"small-thoughts-the-16-concerned-scientists-who-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Small thoughts &#8211; The 16 concerned scientists &#8211; who they are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roygrubb.tumblr.com\/post\/16581690077\/the-16-concerned-scientists-who-they-are\">Small thoughts &#8211; The 16 concerned scientists &#8211; who they are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The WSJ apparently had an op-ed telling us &#8220;no worries&#8221; regarding climate change. And if there is anyone I trust to try to shine up horse manure on any subject to a gleaming sheen, it is the WSJ. The link above takes us to a review of who these concerned citizens are, but here is the gist of it:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it\u2019s an argument from authority these gentlemen want, it\u2019s telling that \u201c[d]espite seven months of intense effort to recruit physicists to sign a politically motivated petition disputing anthropogenic climate change, a mere, 0.45% of the American Physical Society\u2018s 47,000 members signed on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>So 99 doctors tell you to quit smoking and get more exercise, but you listen to the one selling supplements instead.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small thoughts &#8211; The 16 concerned scientists &#8211; who they are: The WSJ apparently had an op-ed telling us &#8220;no worries&#8221; regarding climate change. And if there is anyone I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small thoughts &#8211; The 16 concerned scientists &#8211; who they are&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}