{"id":832,"date":"2008-12-27T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=832"},"modified":"2009-01-31T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T15:01:40","slug":"how-do-they-know-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"How Do They Know That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When scientific statements are made a common response is &#8220;How do they know that,how can they say that for certain&#8221;? For the most part this statement is not a honest inquiry,but is posed as a objection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkandcookies.com\/link\/141187\/detail\/\">Skewed Science <\/a>offers a look at how peoples attitude towards science can and is, warped by bias thinking and ideologies.This video raises many excellent points in its short 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When scientific statements are made a common response is &#8220;How do they know that,how can they say that for certain&#8221;? For the most part this statement is not a honest inquiry,but is posed as a objection. Skewed Science offers a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-dq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1239,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1239","url_meta":{"origin":832,"position":0},"title":"Promoting science to teens","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I know how important science is. 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