{"id":15889,"date":"2013-02-14T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:16:46","slug":"peter-gleick-vs-heartland-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/peter-gleick-vs-heartland-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gleick vs Heartland Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gleick, my sbling here at scienceblogs.com (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/significantfigures\/\">see his blog here<\/a>) is famous for a lot of things, but about one year ago he went up against the Heartland Institute and in a daring effort of investigative (if avocational) journalism, revealed that right wing conservative\/libertarian &#8220;think&#8221; tank&#8217;s nefarious plans to interfere with science education in an effort to discredit climate scientists in the eyes of the American public and our students through a series of rather smarmy tactics, including some really obnoxious billboards.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Mandia at &#8220;Global Warming: Man or Myth?&#8221; has written a one-year-later retrospective of Gleick vs. Heartland.  Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/profmandia.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/14\/peter-gleick-vs-heartland-intitute-scorecard-one-year-later-and-the-winner-is\/\">Peter Gleick vs Heartland Institute \u2013 Scorecard One Year Later. And the Winner Is?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott compares the &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; of the Heartland Institute over the last year with Peter&#8217;s activities to produce a rather lopsided score card that resembles what would happen if the local High School football team went up against the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gleick, my sbling here at scienceblogs.com (see his blog here) is famous for a lot of things, but about one year ago he went up against the Heartland Institute and in a daring effort of investigative (if avocational) journalism, revealed that right wing conservative\/libertarian &#8220;think&#8221; tank&#8217;s nefarious plans to interfere with science education in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/peter-gleick-vs-heartland-institute\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Gleick vs Heartland Institute<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,857,1841,1882,514],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-48h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889"}],"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=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}