{"id":1603,"date":"2008-02-29T21:13:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T21:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/29\/creationism-stupidity-linked\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T21:13:23","slug":"creationism-stupidity-linked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/creationism-stupidity-linked\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism, Stupidity, Linked"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to a poll this week, approximately 31 percent of surveyed Americans believe Roger Clemens is telling the truth about never taking performance-enhancing drugs.This is about the same percentage of Americans who believe in creationism, and still insist George Bush is doing a good job. And here&#8217;s my theory: These are all the same people, the true believers. If you cross-indexed these polls, you would likely find that Gallup and Quinnipiac just keep tapping into the same wacky group. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/bondy\/2008\/02\/beware-the-true-believers.html\">The Daily Blahg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a poll this week, approximately 31 percent of surveyed Americans believe Roger Clemens is telling the truth about never taking performance-enhancing drugs.This is about the same percentage of Americans who believe in creationism, and still insist George Bush is doing a good job. And here&#8217;s my theory: These are all the same people, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/29\/creationism-stupidity-linked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creationism, Stupidity, Linked<\/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":[207,55,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-pR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"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=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}