{"id":12929,"date":"2017-03-28T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2017-03-28T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:59:57","slug":"climate-change-deniers-think-polar-bears-are-thriving-in-a-melting-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/climate-change-deniers-think-polar-bears-are-thriving-in-a-melting-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Deniers Think Polar Bears Are Thriving in a Melting Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/58da6ed17107b96c7a17c30c\/lede\/1490710502086-Final-1490650383740-19652526580_566e715cac_z.jpeg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Because they are uninformed. Anyone who looks at the science objectively can at least see indications for concern. To see the complete opposite of the truth requires faith in a &#8216;special&#8217; kind of science. A science where you start with what you want to believe is true, and then create studies to back up your position, ignoring any facts that don&#8217;t fit with your theorem to eventually arrive at your &#8216;proven&#8217; science-based &#8216;truth&#8217;&#8230; You know that isn&#8217;t actually science, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2nfAO90\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2nfAO90<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they are uninformed. Anyone who looks at the science objectively can at least see indications for concern. To see the complete opposite of the truth requires faith in a &#8216;special&#8217; kind of science. A science where you start with what you want to believe is true, and then create studies to back up your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-12929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11663,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/obama-wrote-the-most-popular-scientific-journal-article-of-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":12929,"position":0},"title":"Obama Wrote the Most Popular Scientific Journal Article of 2016","date":"December 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"AND here we see one of the BIGGEST problems with science in America. 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