{"id":2172,"date":"2010-10-07T23:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T03:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2010-10-07T23:13:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T03:13:39","slug":"month-10-day-8-scientist-versus-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-10-day-8-scientist-versus-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 10, Day 8: Scientist Versus Idiot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post editorializes on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/05\/AR2010100504908.html\">vendetta against climatologist Michael Mann has now reached obsessive dimensions<\/a>.  Read it and weep.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virginia&#8217;s Attorney General is indeed an embarrassment, both to the State he nominally serves and to the legal profession.   His posturings are representative of a virulent strain of know-nothingism which is profoundly damaging to the nation as a whole, despite its appeal to those politicians and voters who embrace the notion that expertise is inherently suspect.  The Attorney General&#8217;s readiness to assert that this respected research scientist is engaged in a multi-year campaign of intellectual chicanery tells us a great deal more about Mr. Cuccinelli than about Dr. Mann.  Unfortunately, American anti-intellectualism has resurfaced at precisely the time when scientific expertise is most needed, and willful ignorance has a profound moral dimension.  With overall global temperatures rising and weather extremes increasing, the experiential evidence for climate change is no longer deniable.  Another thing we can&#8217;t deny: Dr. Mann is a bigger asset to this country than the man persecuting him.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post editorializes on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, whose vendetta against climatologist Michael Mann has now reached obsessive dimensions. Read it and weep. Virginia&#8217;s Attorney General is indeed an embarrassment, both to the State he nominally serves and to the legal profession. His posturings are representative of a virulent strain of know-nothingism which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[207,462,553],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-idiots","tag-ken-cuccinelli","tag-michael-mann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}