{"id":33546,"date":"2016-05-17T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2016-05-17T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:33:35","slug":"a-science-journalist-takes-a-skeptical-look-at-scientific-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/05\/a-science-journalist-takes-a-skeptical-look-at-scientific-skepticism.html","title":{"rendered":"A science journalist takes a skeptical look at scientific skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33548\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/Flextern_orange_lectern_laptop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33548\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33548\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/Flextern_orange_lectern_laptop.jpg\" alt=\"Lectern with laptop \" width=\"402\" height=\"600\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This isn\u2019t a portable science lab. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t agree with him on everything \u2014 we diverge pretty widely regarding the last several paragraphs of his article \u2014 but the author raises really important issues for discussion:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I don\u2019t agree with him on everything \u2014 we diverge pretty widely regarding the last several paragraphs of his article \u2014 but the author raises really important issues for discussion: \u00a0 http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more\/ \u00a0 Posted from Richmond, Virginia \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A science journalist takes a skeptical look at scientific skepticism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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