{"id":24946,"date":"2011-03-21T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/21\/an-outstanding-example-of-auth\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T13:58:05","slug":"an-outstanding-example-of-auth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/an-outstanding-example-of-auth\/","title":{"rendered":"An outstanding example of Authority, Conspiracy Theory, and Confirmation Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former USGS geologist Jim Berkland links tides, whale beaching, magnetic fields, lunar cycles, earthquakes, and stuff to predict that there will be a major earthquake on the North American west coast between March 19th and March 26th.<\/p>\n<p>The following video is rather mixed up but it will amuse you:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xQXDt4VdS0E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Obviously Jim Berkland is a kook.  Probably.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, his prediction comes true.  Then, I&#8217;ll look at his tide &#8211; magnetic field &#8211; homing pigeon connection more closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former USGS geologist Jim Berkland links tides, whale beaching, magnetic fields, lunar cycles, earthquakes, and stuff to predict that there will be a major earthquake on the North American west coast between March 19th and March 26th. The following video is rather mixed up but it will amuse you:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6um","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24946"}],"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=24946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}