{"id":10138,"date":"2013-01-21T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:25:14","slug":"beware-of-labels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=10138","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I\u00a0call you anti-science, which discourse might\u00a0that be\u00a0related to? The one on climate change, evolution, biotechnology, or vaccines? Because the term is flung around so freely, who can tell. That was the point I tried making with this recent post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Order Klonopin Online More importantly, is\u00a0slagging you as anti-science\u00a0a constructive way to have a conversation? In fact,\u00a0it’s likely a conversation stopper.<\/p>\n

https://prsaboston.org/podcasting-pr/ Such is the case with any term that has become politically loaded.\u00a0Like “denier.”\u00a0I was reminded of this yet again via Andrew Revkin and a twitter exchange he had with some folks who\u00a0cling to the “denier” usage in the climate debate. For a one-stop shop summation of the back-and-forth, along\u00a0with some excellent commentary, read this post<\/a> by Dan Kahan at\u00a0his Cultural Cognition\u00a0site.<\/p>\n

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Get Ambien Prescription Online A reader there\u00a0also left a comment with this astute\u00a0observation:<\/p>\n

Seems to me that the counterproductivity of using the term “denier” is fairly obvious. But even if the counterproductivity can’t be proven, could there be any possible advantage to using the term? Does it advance understanding in any way? Does it create an environment for productive exchange of views? Does it in any way further the goals of people who are concerned about the potential dangers of climate change?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good questions. The commenter\u00a0went on to suggest that the same logic applied to the favored terminology of climate skeptics (who have their own set of pet terms to disparage the climate concerned community), as well.<\/p>\n

Is there any hope for either side to take the high road?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I\u00a0call you anti-science, which discourse might\u00a0that be\u00a0related to? The one on climate change, evolution, biotechnology, or vaccines? Because the term is flung around so freely, who can tell. That was the point I tried making with this recent post. More importantly, is\u00a0slagging you as anti-science\u00a0a constructive way to have a conversation? In fact,\u00a0it’s likely…Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2552,2553,2554,2557,2962],"tags":[835,846,851,1583],"class_list":["post-10138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-central","category-climate-change","category-climate-communication","category-climate-politics","category-science-communication","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics","tag-climate-science","tag-science-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}