{"id":441,"date":"2012-10-08T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T10:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/?p=441"},"modified":"2012-10-08T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:08:52","slug":"prizes-straight-from-the-pits-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2012\/10\/08\/prizes-straight-from-the-pits-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Prizes Straight from the Pits of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should make predicting this year&#8217;s science Nobels easier. Last month,<br \/>\nRepublican congressman Paul Broun, who also happens to be a member of the US House of Representatives science committee, described evolution, the big bang theory and embryology as &#8216;lies straight from the pit hell&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rep. Paul Broun Says Evolution, Embryology, and Big Bang Theory are &quot;Lies from the Pit of Hell&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBy3MbP4WDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today one of the Nobel committees got their revenge, giving the Physiology or Medicine prize to work on embryology. Ha, take that!<\/p>\n<p>So, coming up this week: prizes for the Big Bang tomorrow, and chemical evolution on Wednesday. Perhaps Dawkins will get the literature prize on Thursday, just to really wind up the US politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Who, then for the Peace Prize? Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should make predicting this year&#8217;s science Nobels easier. Last month, Republican congressman Paul Broun, who also happens to be a member of the US House of Representatives science committee, described evolution, the big bang theory and embryology as &#8216;lies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2012\/10\/08\/prizes-straight-from-the-pits-of-hell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}