{"id":11833,"date":"2012-05-06T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/05\/06\/advertiser-walks-away-from-ant\/"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:30:08","slug":"advertiser-walks-away-from-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/advertiser-walks-away-from-ant\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertiser walks away from  anti-science Heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2012\/may\/06\/diageo-end-funding-heartland-institute\"><strong>Diageo announces it is to end funding of Heartland Institute<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDiageo, one the world&#8217;s largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a rightwing US thinktank which briefly ran a billboard campaign this week comparing people concerned about climate change to mass murderers and terrorists, such as Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson and Ted Kaczynski.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a billboard appeared over the Eisenhower Expressway in Illinois showing a picture of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber who in 1996 was convicted of a 17-year mail bombing campaign that killed three people and injured dozens. The caption read: &#8220;I still believe in global warming. Do you?&#8221; A day later it was withdrawn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: Diageo announces it is to end funding of Heartland Institute Diageo, one the world&#8217;s largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a rightwing US thinktank which briefly ran a billboard campaign this week comparing people concerned about climate change to mass murderers and terrorists, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/advertiser-walks-away-from-ant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertiser walks away from  anti-science Heartland<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,97],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-34R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}