{"id":15268,"date":"2010-04-19T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/dilbert-gets-it-right-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T08:09:53","slug":"dilbert-gets-it-right-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/dilbert-gets-it-right-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert gets it right | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds about right.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strips\/comic\/2010-04-16\/\" title=\"Dilbert.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/067e5_dilbert_homeopathy.jpg\" alt=\"dilbert_homeopathy\" width=\"610\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14137\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>I like the cartoon, though I&rsquo;m not a huge fan of Scott Adams himself; his creationist\/Intelligent Design leanings make that difficult. Some people say he&rsquo;s a gadfly, just trying to get people to think. But I&rsquo;ve never found his arguments persuasive, and they&rsquo;re generally just repetitions of some of the more basic (and easily debunked) ID claims. PZ Myers has dealt with him any number of times, and a web search will yield all sorts of interesting results.<\/p><p>Life is full of such conflicts; Jenny McCarthy is actually very funny when she&rsquo;s not trying to infect the world with measles, Oprah does a lot of actual good work in contrast to her support of McCarthy, and Fred Phelps&hellip; no, my mistake. Phelps is just 100% awful.<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the tie tip to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plaitsolutions.com\/\">my brother, Sid<\/a>. <\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MyQL6jiMt1UWZOxqSRK4pDT2V7Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/067e5_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MyQL6jiMt1UWZOxqSRK4pDT2V7Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/067e5_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/067e5_gTTsXOyT61Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/067e5_1rsFnnUM1ZM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds about right.I like the cartoon, though I&rsquo;m not a huge fan of Scott Adams himself; his creationist\/Intelligent Design leanings make that difficult. Some people say he&rsquo;s a gadfly, just trying to get people to think. But I&rsquo;ve never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/dilbert-gets-it-right-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}