{"id":2024,"date":"2006-07-21T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/get_your_science_from_the_radi\/"},"modified":"2006-07-21T00:23:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T04:23:59","slug":"get_your_science_from_the_radi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/get_your_science_from_the_radi\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Science From The Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The self-proclaimed &#8220;America&#8217;s Anchorman&#8221; on <a title=\"Limbaugh claimed \"you need abortions to get\" embryonic stem cells, \"we need to re-examine\" notion of \"scientist\" because \"science has been so wrong about so many things\"\" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200607200011\">embryonic stem cell research<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m telling you, and I have from the get-go, who is behind this &#8212; is the &#8212; the militant pro-abortion crowd, because you need abortions to get these.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, fertility clinics perform an abortion as part of the <em>in vitro<\/em> fertilization process?  I wasn&#8217;t aware of that.  That would defeat the whole purpose, wouldn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nIf that wasn&#8217;t comical enough, he then added this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This &#8212; the &#8212; I think we need to re-examine this whole term &#8220;scientist.&#8221; You know, there are certain things in our culture that are never questioned. They have instant credibility. If a scientist says anything, [gasp] it&#8217;s gotta be true. Scientists have this aura.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nScience is not politics &#8212; well, it&#8217;s absolutely BS. Science is all about politics, and science has been so wrong about so many things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, in offering brilliant insights like the one above, Limbaugh demonstrates that we should drop &#8220;scientists&#8221; all together and get our information from those holding Ph.D.s in radio punditry.  Because clearly they don&#8217;t have a political agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/get_your_science_from_the_radi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Get Your Science From The Radio\"><p>The self-proclaimed &#8220;America&#8217;s Anchorman&#8221; on embryonic stem cell research: I&#8217;m telling you, and I have from the get-go, who is behind this &#8212; is the &#8212; the militant pro-abortion crowd, because you need abortions to get these. Uh, fertility clinics perform an abortion as part of the in vitro fertilization process? I wasn&#8217;t aware of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}