{"id":1147,"date":"2015-08-26T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T04:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2015-08-26T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T04:06:01","slug":"confidently-uninformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Confidently Uninformed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence is often inversely proportional to expertise. If I were a good liar, I could pass for an expert on a number of esoteric topics. I could, that is, unless any audience member possessed enough knowledge to recognize my act as just that. But if I had already convinced key members of my audience of my expertise, the objector could be easily dismissed. That is why science and scientific endeavors can be so aggravating. <\/p>\n<p>Scientific jargon and pseudoscientific gibberish are indistinguishable to an appropriately uninformed audience. Thus can the uninformed confidently make terrible decisions based on confidently delivered bad advice of the intellectually unencumbered. <\/p>\n<p>Quashing a terrible recommendation from highly regarded idiot is nearly impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidence is often inversely proportional to expertise. If I were a good liar, I could pass for an expert on a number of esoteric topics. I could, that is, unless any audience member possessed enough knowledge to recognize my act as just that. But if I had already convinced key members of my audience of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}