{"id":5282,"date":"2016-05-27T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:31:31","slug":"scientific-illiteracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5282","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Illiteracy (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Remember a couple of years ago when I wrote despairingly of American scientific illiteracy and the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2482\">1 in 4 Americans didn&#8217;t know that the earth revolves around the sun<\/a>? I was pretty certain that that represented the infimum of such stories. I should have known better. Today, we have this: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;80 Percent of Americans Want to Label Food That Contains DNA&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NTEL1583Bl\">https:\/\/t.co\/NTEL1583Bl<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/modernscientist\">@modernscientist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kontra (@counternotions) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/counternotions\/status\/735981201727574016\">May 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> I get that some people worry about GMOs and would rather avoid them but is it too much to ask that they know what they&#8217;re talking about? What on earth can non-genetically modified mean if your food doesn&#8217;t have DNA? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a couple of years ago when I wrote despairingly of American scientific illiteracy and the fact that 1 in 4 Americans didn&#8217;t know that the earth revolves around the sun? I was pretty certain that that represented the infimum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=5282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-5282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5282\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}