{"id":6997,"date":"2011-09-06T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6997"},"modified":"2011-09-06T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T14:50:07","slug":"a-common-thread-runs-through-crankery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6997","title":{"rendered":"A Common Thread Runs Through Crankery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/sreach/">https://www.secpeinvestments.com/sreach/</a> While <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2011\/09\/the_fixed_mindset_of_the_anti-vaccine_activist.php\" target=\"_blank\">exploring<\/a> the anti-vaccine mindset, Orac assembles this group under one umbrella:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/fractional-coo-service/"></a> One of my interests in skepticism and critical thinking has been the similarity in the fallacious arguments, approach to data, and general behavior of those who are&#8211;to put it generously&#8211;not so skeptical or scientific in their approach to life. I&#8217;m talking about believers in the paranormal, quacks, anti-vaccine activists, conspiracy theory mavens, Holocaust deniers, creationists, anthropogenic global warming denialists, and cranks of all stripes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/crowns/">https://dentalprovidence.com/crowns/</a> A commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2011\/09\/the_fixed_mindset_of_the_anti-vaccine_activist.php#comment-5027576\" target=\"_blank\">calls<\/a> foul:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/online-school/"></a> I think your first paragraph has something of the strawman construct about it and you could find many examples to question it. To take AGW as an example, this is a concept that has been questioned by none other than James Randi, hardly known for his crank views. <a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/tech/">Buy Online Soma</a> \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/swift-blog\/805-agw-revisited.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/swift-blog\/805-agw-revisited.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/">https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/</a> Whereas one of the great proponents of AGW is that woomaster general Prince Charles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/ramedica-pain-relief/"></a> While exploring the anti-vaccine mindset, Orac assembles this group under one umbrella: One of my interests in skepticism and critical thinking has been the similarity in the fallacious arguments, approach to data, and general behavior of those who are&#8211;to put it generously&#8211;not so skeptical or scientific in their approach to life. I&#8217;m talking about believers&#8230;<span> <a href="https://rgprincipal.com/submit-resume/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6997\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2977,2978],"tags":[1612],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism","category-skeptics","tag-skeptics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","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=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}