{"id":100,"date":"2008-08-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/08\/01\/mixing_science_and_politics_can_be_funny\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T03:00:00","slug":"mixing_science_and_politics_can_be_funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/08\/01\/mixing_science_and_politics_can_be_funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Science and Politics Can be Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago some American scientists became Concerned.  So concerned about political interference were they that formed a union.  And called it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/\">Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOne of the ways the UCS has raised its profile is to run a cartoon competition.  They call it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/scientific_integrity\/science_idol\/\">Science Idol<\/a>, but hey not everybody&#8217;s perfect.<br \/>\nI voted for this one:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ucsaction.org\/img\/gv2\/custom_images\/ucsaction\/2008-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nbut there were several other close contenders &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ucsaction.org\/campaign\/science_idol_2008_vote?rk=97wvF5Mqc2W2W\">have a look at them all<\/a><br \/>\nSo, go along and vote for your favorite cartoon.  Then consider getting involved &#8211; I think that&#8217;s what they <em>really<\/em> want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago some American scientists became Concerned. So concerned about political interference were they that formed a union. And called it the Union of Concerned Scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}