{"id":5049,"date":"2010-06-25T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2010-06-25T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T01:04:09","slug":"if-only-oil-spills-would-evaporate-like-climategate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/if-only-oil-spills-would-evaporate-like-climategate\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only Oil Spills Would Evaporate Like Climategate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I&#8217;m on hiatus, there&#8217;s no reason not to post links to interesting things that I would be <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">tweeting<\/a> anyway.  Blogs are still much better places to have conversations, whatever the Twitter triumphalists might think.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind:  check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/blogs\/the-gaggle\/2010\/06\/25\/newspapers-retract-climategate-claims-but-damage-still-done.html\">story by Sharon Begley from <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a>, on how media are slowly backing away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/12\/08\/climategate\/\">Climategate<\/a> hysteria.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/06\/climategate_slowly_deflates.php\">PZ<\/a>.)  She very rightly highlights the real damage:  the backing-away won&#8217;t undo all the misimpressions of scientific malfeasance that people absorbed when the story was at its height. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I&#8217;m on hiatus, there&#8217;s no reason not to post links to interesting things that I would be tweeting anyway. Blogs are still much better places to have conversations, whatever the Twitter triumphalists might think. With that in mind: check out this story by Sharon Begley from Newsweek, on how media are slowly backing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science-and-the-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}