{"id":21035,"date":"2015-04-13T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21035"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:49:09","slug":"the-rise-of-skeptical-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/the-rise-of-skeptical-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of Skeptical Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site, not the thing.  From the YouTube site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone at Skeptical Science spends a lot of their time reading the scientific literature and listening to experts. Without that we wouldn&#8217;t be able to write all the material that&#8217;s published on Skeptical Science. It&#8217;s a lot of work, especially when you do this with a critical eye. Our goal, after all, is to ensure that what we write reflects the scientific literature on the subject as accurately as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The materials created by Skeptical Science are used by teachers, politicians, and of course by users on the internet to rebut climate myths. Thanks to this a lot of people have seen materials produced by us, even though they might not know that they have.<\/p>\n<p>The website Skeptical Science wasn&#8217;t created overnight, nor was the team behind it assembled instantly. It started small with John Cook starting the website and publishing the first rebuttals to climate myths. As I wasn&#8217;t familiar with the story of how Skeptical Science evolved to the website it is today I had the idea to interview John about this. Despite John constantly saying &#8220;I&#8217;m just not that interesting&#8221; I eventually managed to get him in front of the camera to tell the story behind Skeptical Science.<\/p>\n<p>The article released with this video can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsceptic.com\/2015\/04\/13\/the-rise-of-skeptical-science\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The transcript, used resources, and citations for this video can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsceptic.com\/video-transcripts\/39-the-rise-of-skeptical-science\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>You can support me and the content that I create through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/collinmaessen\">Patreon<\/a>.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.patreon.com\/collinmaessen<\/p>\n<p>Interviews filmed in collaboration with University of Queensland, Skeptical Science, and Peter Sinclair. Full interviews available April 2015 in \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/making-sense-climate-science-denial-uqx-denial101x\">Making Sense of Climate Science Denial<\/a>&#8216;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0_sZEtityY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site, not the thing. From the YouTube site: Everyone at Skeptical Science spends a lot of their time reading the scientific literature and listening to experts. Without that we wouldn&#8217;t be able to write all the material that&#8217;s published on Skeptical Science. It&#8217;s a lot of work, especially when you do this with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/13\/the-rise-of-skeptical-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The rise of Skeptical Science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[856,148,857,1882,3077],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5th","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21035"}],"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=21035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21035\/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=21035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}