{"id":139134,"date":"2022-05-10T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/is-society-in-general-turning-its-back-on-intellectual-discussion-and-scientific-discovery"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:02:17","slug":"is-society-in-general-turning-its-back-on-intellectual-discussion-and-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/is-society-in-general-turning-its-back-on-intellectual-discussion-and-scientific-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Is Society in General Turning its Back on Intellectual Discussion and Scientific Discovery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-society-in-general-turning-its-back-on-intellectual-discussion-and-scientific-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our global struggle to deal with COVID-19 and the existential threat that is climate change, there is a growing anti-intellectual, anti-science movement afoot.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Is 21st-century civilization following Rome and China as we turn to disinformation delivered by the technologies science has fostered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our global struggle to deal with COVID-19 and the existential threat that is climate change, there is a growing anti-intellectual, anti-science movement afoot. Is 21st-century civilization following Rome and China as we turn to disinformation delivered by the technologies science has fostered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}