{"id":394,"date":"2008-01-17T06:46:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=394"},"modified":"2008-08-05T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:59:19","slug":"threats-and-negative-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Threats and negative comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The issue of evolution tends to bring out the passion in folks. I can understand that. However, to take those passions to an ugly extreme is uncalled for and not endorsed or tolerated by Florida Citizens for Science. A comment in this post’s thread<\/a> reports that some folks may have been receiving threats and personal attacks. Florida Citizens for Science condemns such threats and personal attacks. My sincere apologies to anyone who has been the target of these kinds of messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The issue of evolution tends to bring out the passion in folks. I can understand that. However, to take those passions to an ugly extreme is uncalled for and not endorsed or tolerated by Florida Citizens for Science. A comment … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-6m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":600,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=600","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":0},"title":"A comment about comments","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. That dentist post has 225 comments on it. It would be some nice ego-stroking if those hundreds of comments were about my post, but they aren't. What are those comments about? A whole lot of banging of heads against brick walls and a flamewar laced with personal insults. This\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 36 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 36 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=600#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":338,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=338","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":1},"title":"Miami Herald article","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Miami Herald jumps into the fray over evolution in the Florida public schools science standards. The reporter writes a comprehensive piece on what is going on, the history of attacks on evolution education, and interviews quite a few people to try to display everyone's views on the subject. In\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3429,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3429","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":2},"title":"Join Florida Citizens for Science as we educate the state","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We here at Florida Citizens for Science are on a mission to \"educate the state\" about threats to science education. You're invited to attend the events Florida Citizens for Science board members will be speaking at all across the state. Bring your passion, bring your questions, and bring a friend.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":535,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=535","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":3},"title":"Media Alert","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The following two media alerts are being sent out to news outlets statewide: First one is notice of a press conference and the second is a notice of a Public Roundtable Discussion. Reporters are encouraged to visit the Florida Citizens for Science Media Page. ** NEWS CONFERENCE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c MONDAY 4\/14\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08"","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3264,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3264","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":4},"title":"Textbooks are still a hot topic","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Somehow we here in Florida made it through the past few months without being too embarrassed by the anti-science nuts in our state government. A handful of worrying bills that would have impacted science education died at the end of the annual legislative session (see here and here). Proposals made\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3264#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Florida-Education-Defenders-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2563,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2563","url_meta":{"origin":394,"position":5},"title":"Happy Darwin Day!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll be in Winter Park today at the Central Florida Freethought Community's Darwin Day event. When it's my turn to take the mic at about 2:30, I'll talk about whether evolution is being taught in schools, a brief history of anti-evolution efforts in Florida and then wrap up with a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Religious Liberties Act 2017"","block_context":{"text":"Religious Liberties Act 2017","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=33"},"img":{"alt_text":"cffc-dd","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cffc-dd-1024x390.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cffc-dd-1024x390.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cffc-dd-1024x390.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cffc-dd-1024x390.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}