{"id":178103,"date":"2023-12-12T00:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/opinion-proof-were-living-in-a-simulation-shows-why-americans-massively-distrust-science"},"modified":"2023-12-12T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:40:04","slug":"opinion-proof-were-living-in-a-simulation-shows-why-americans-massively-distrust-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/opinion-proof-were-living-in-a-simulation-shows-why-americans-massively-distrust-science","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: \u201cProof\u201d We\u2019re Living in a Simulation Shows Why Americans Massively Distrust Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion-proof-were-living-in-a-simulation-shows-why-americans-massively-distrust-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen the headlines. \u201cA scientist may have proven we live in a simulation!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/simulation-theory-evidence-proven-2665932768\" class=\"\"> scream the papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow, that\u2019s amazing!\u201d think millions of people as they click the headline to unlock the universe\u2019s secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Our excited curiosity turns to disappointment when we read the article and discover the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve seen the headlines. \u201cA scientist may have proven we live in a simulation!\u201d scream the papers. \u201cWow, that\u2019s amazing!\u201d think millions of people as they click the headline to unlock the universe\u2019s secrets. Our excited curiosity turns to disappointment when we read the article and discover the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178103","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}