{"id":197,"date":"2012-02-26T23:09:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-02-26T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T06:09:55","slug":"the-heartland-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"The Heartland Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the news first broke on this, I was reminded of something I had read about a year ago. I wrote a review of that great but disturbing book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertscope.com\/webDetail.php?log_id=773\">Merchants of Doubt<\/a> by Naomi Orekes and Erik M. Conway. I looked up the connection and found this on the the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Heartland_Institute\">Wikipedia<\/a> listing of the Heartland Institute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway wrote that the Heartland Institute was known &#8220;for its persistent questioning of climate science, for its promotion of &#8216;experts&#8217; who have done little, if any, peer-reviewed climate research, and for its sponsorship of a conference in New York City in 2008 alleging that the scientific community&#8217;s work on global warming is fake.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, this is indeed one of <i>those<\/i> organizations. I thought it might be worth restating my point from that review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the people can be led to believe that science is not, in general, trustworthy, then they can be convinced of any absurdity that favors a wealthy industry. <\/p>\n<p>This book will be extremely disturbing for all scientists and followers of science. It is disturbing to all scientists, that is, who aren&#8217;t willing to prostitute their credentials out for personal gain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish a scientist could have his (to be expected perhaps, the vast majority of deniers are male) credentials revoked for malpractice in the same manner as a physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the news first broke on this, I was reminded of something I had read about a year ago. I wrote a review of that great but disturbing book called Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Orekes and Erik M. Conway. I looked up the connection and found this on the the Wikipedia listing of the [&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-197","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\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}