{"id":1089,"date":"2005-04-05T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/04\/gawking_all_the_way\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T19:02:42","slug":"gawking_all_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/04\/gawking_all_the_way.html","title":{"rendered":"GAWKING ALL THE WAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Gawker says<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> about
\nDavid Brooks’s blooper correction: “We’d roll the laugh track if anyone actually knew what the
\nhell he was talking about. Or cared.” Also, check Paul Krugman’s funny-if-it-wasn’t-so-true refer<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\n(this morning, too):
\n


\n

In its April Fools’ Day issue, Scientific American published a spoof editorial in which it
\napologized for endorsing the theory of evolution just because it’s “the unifying concept for all of
\nbiology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time,” saying that “as editors, we had no
\nbusiness being persuaded by mountains of evidence.” And it conceded that it had succumbed “to
\nthe easy mistake of thinking that scientists understand their fields better than, say, U.S. senators
\nor best-selling novelists do.”<\/P>
\n

The editorial was titled “O.K., We Give Up.” But it could just as well have been called “Why
\nSo Few Scientists Are Republicans These Days.” Thirty years ago, attacks on science came
\nmostly from the left; these days, they come overwhelmingly from the right, and have the backing
\nof leading Republicans.<\/P>
\n

Scientific American may think that evolution is supported by mountains of evidence, but
\nPresident Bush declares that “the jury is still out.” Senator James Inhofe dismisses the vast body
\nof research supporting the scientific consensus on climate change as a “gigantic hoax.” And
\nconservative pundits like George Will write approvingly about Michael Crichton’s
\nanti-environmentalist fantasies.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/B><\/A>
\n

If you’ve ever seen Krugman in person or on television, you’ll have noticed his darting eyes.
\nThey say to me he laughs a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Gawker says about David Brooks’s blooper correction: “We’d roll the laugh track if anyone actually knew what the hell he was talking about. Or cared.” Also, check Paul Krugman’s funny-if-it-wasn’t-so-true refer (this morning, too): In its April Fools’ Day issue, Scientific American published a spoof editorial in which it apologized for endorsing the theory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}