{"id":25089,"date":"2010-01-07T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/07\/dont-be-anybodys-charlie-brown\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:06:37","slug":"dont-be-anybodys-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/dont-be-anybodys-charlie-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be anybody&#8217;s Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I post about race, the racists show up and use my blog to spew their hokey science all over the place. There are reasons that I tolerate that to a certain extent, but there are limits.  When a student shows up in a classroom and starts asking &#8220;innocent&#8221; questions of the teacher about &#8220;radiocarbon dating&#8221; and &#8220;transitional fossils&#8221; and such the teacher is being played by the student, who was likely trained (as it were) by some crazy yahoo parent or preacher.  When AGW denialists show up on a science blog and start quoting from the famous stolen emails &#8230; same thing.<\/p>\n<p>If such abuse of blog space or classroom time happens again and again and again, the person to whom it is happening has to be considered, eventually, a bit of a chump.  As in &#8220;Charlie Brown is such a chump&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And by that, I mean&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ou7BLV_X2WQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Good grief.  We&#8217;ve all been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I post about race, the racists show up and use my blog to spew their hokey science all over the place. There are reasons that I tolerate that to a certain extent, but there are limits. When a student shows up in a classroom and starts asking &#8220;innocent&#8221; questions of the teacher about &#8220;radiocarbon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/dont-be-anybodys-charlie-brown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t be anybody&#8217;s Charlie Brown<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6wF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089"}],"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=25089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}