{"id":2494,"date":"2008-01-05T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/05\/we-are-doomed-if-huckabee-is-e\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T12:22:02","slug":"we-are-doomed-if-huckabee-is-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/we-are-doomed-if-huckabee-is-e\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are Doomed if Huckabee is Elected&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to see words like &#8220;doomed&#8221; and &#8220;ruined&#8221; in the context of the current election cycle in the US.  Many of us had those words in our minds and on our lips during the last two election cycles.  I wonder if the rhetoric of doom, which is largely accurate, will be more over this time around.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The logic that convinces us that evolution is a fact is the same logic we use to say smoking is hazardous to your health or we have serious energy policy issues because of global warming,&#8221; University of Michigan professor Gilbert Omenn told reporters at the launch of a book on evolution by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).&#8221;I would worry that a president who didn&#8217;t believe in the evolution arguments wouldn&#8217;t believe in those other arguments either. This is a way of leading our country to ruin,&#8221; added Omenn, who was part of a panel of experts at the launch of &#8220;Science, Evolution and Creationism.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5izWTSSnlFq9QrIMeC-Dir8OKjnGg\">AFP<\/a>] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to see words like &#8220;doomed&#8221; and &#8220;ruined&#8221; in the context of the current election cycle in the US. Many of us had those words in our minds and on our lips during the last two election cycles. I wonder if the rhetoric of doom, which is largely accurate, will be more over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/05\/we-are-doomed-if-huckabee-is-e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;We are Doomed if Huckabee is Elected&#8221;<\/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":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Ee","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}