{"id":2823,"date":"2012-02-08T22:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2012-02-08T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:50:49","slug":"another-sign-of-the-death-of-science-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2012\/02\/another-sign-of-the-death-of-science-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Another sign of the death of Science in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Webbies main site\" href=\"http:\/\/2012.bloggi.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">12th Annual Weblog (Bloggies)<\/a> awards shortlists are out. This year, they have merged the old categories of &#8220;Best Science weblog&#8221; and &#8220;Best Computer or Technology Weblog&#8221; into a single category, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/2012.bloggi.es\/#science\">Best Science or Technology Weblog<\/a>&#8220;. And the five candidates on the shortlist? Four technology blogs and one rabid anti-science blog.<\/p>\n<p>Not that this award ever had any track record for being able to distinguish science from pseudo-science; the award is legendary for vote-stuffing. But this year it has really stooped to new depths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th Annual Weblog (Bloggies) awards shortlists are out. This year, they have merged the old categories of &#8220;Best Science weblog&#8221; and &#8220;Best Computer or Technology Weblog&#8221; into a single category, &#8220;Best Science or Technology Weblog&#8220;. And the five candidates on the shortlist? Four technology blogs and one rabid anti-science blog. Not that this award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}