{"id":1683,"date":"2011-03-12T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2011-04-16T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T02:12:43","slug":"henry-waxmans-great-analogy-about-the-denial-response-to-climate-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/henry-waxmans-great-analogy-about-the-denial-response-to-climate-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Waxman&#8217;s great analogy about the denial response to climate science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power [1]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If my doctor told me I had cancer, I wouldn\u2019t scour the country to find someone to tell me that I don\u2019t need to worry about it. Just because I didn\u2019t feel gravely ill yet, I wouldn\u2019t assume that my doctor was falsifying the data. And if my doctor said he didn\u2019t know how long I had to live, I wouldn\u2019t say, well, if he\u2019s uncertain about that, he\u2019s probably wrong about the whole thing.&#8221; [Henry Waxman, D-CA]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[1]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/fyi\/2011\/032.html?source=rssfyi\">http:\/\/www.aip.org\/fyi\/2011\/032.html?source=rssfyi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power [1]: &#8220;If my doctor told me I had cancer, I wouldn\u2019t scour the country to find someone to tell me that I don\u2019t need to worry about it. Just because I didn\u2019t feel gravely ill yet, I wouldn\u2019t assume that my doctor was falsifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[49,50,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-1683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-science","8":"tag-climate","9":"tag-politics-2","10":"tag-quotes","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}