{"id":636,"date":"2008-11-30T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2008-11-30T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T14:27:20","slug":"scientists-decline-to-defend-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/30\/scientists-decline-to-defend-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists decline to defend themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"mailto:billy.cox@heraldtribune.com\">Billy Cox<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/BYLINE --> <!-- PUBDATE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"art_pubdate\">Published: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 12:43 p.m.<br \/>\nLast Modified: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 12:52 p.m.<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/PUBDATE --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_text\">\n<p>It\u2019s a rare thing to see the conceits of establishment science splashed out in the Letters to the Editor. But that\u2019s just what happened over the past week in The Tallahassee Democrat. Check it out:<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- GRAY BOX ARTICLE CONTENT--> <!-- \/GRAY BOX ARTICLE CONTENT-->Since late August, the Mary Brogan Museum of Art &amp; Science in Tallahassee has been hosting a Roswell Exhibit. Old news clippings from that 1947 UFO event, audio, space aliens, all that. The display runs through December.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, the Museum also sponsored two lectures by Stan Friedman, who helped revive public curiosity in the coverup by turning his research into several books. Florida State University physics prof Dr. Paul Cottle, an otherwise thoughtful guy who helped revise teaching standards in Florida schools, hit the roof and uncorked an ad hominem tirade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/article\/20081114\/BLOG32\/811140285\/2121?Title=Scientists_decline_to_defend_themselves\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Billy Cox Published: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 12:43 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 12:52 p.m. It\u2019s a rare thing to see the conceits of establishment science splashed out in the Letters to the Editor. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/30\/scientists-decline-to-defend-themselves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}