{"id":1426,"date":"2011-10-12T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2011-10-12T06:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:31:31","slug":"anthropologists-strike-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Anthropologists strike back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Scott decided to pick on anthropologists<\/a>: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re spending a lot of money on education, and when you look at the results, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not great…. Do you want to use your tax money to educate more people who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get jobs in anthropology? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Anthropologists struck back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“My colleagues and I in the Anthropology Department at USF encourage our Governor to do his homework on the modern discipline of anthropology before making another casual but ill-informed remark.”<\/p>\n

“Perhaps you are unaware that anthropologists are leaders in our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top science fields, making groundbreaking discoveries in areas as varied as public health, human genetics, legal history, bilingualism, the African American heritage, and infant learning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Scott decided to pick on anthropologists: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re spending a lot of money on education, and when you look at the results, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not great…. Do you want to use your tax money to educate more people who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-n0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1273,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1273","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":0},"title":"Newspapers: Antievolution bill is bad idea","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel has published an editorial opposing Sen. 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