{"id":33295,"date":"2020-09-10T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=33295"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:17:51","slug":"how-to-debunk-a-myth-the-science-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/how-to-debunk-a-myth-the-science-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How to debunk a myth.  The science of it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Method 1: Yell at the passing clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Method 2: Rely on your experience of fifty hears ago during which you got some bug up your butt.<\/p>\n<p>Method 3: Demand rational thinking using a series of ignroance-based irrational arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Method 4 (preferred method): Watch this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6I37HD444aI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting that Seifert (and thus by extension Cook) use a fire as an example. This harkens back to Eco&#8217;s use of a fire (in a couple of different contexts, including the cause of a building fire) to suss out the semiotics of meaning and linguistic processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Method 1: Yell at the passing clouds. Method 2: Rely on your experience of fifty hears ago during which you got some bug up your butt. Method 3: Demand rational thinking using a series of ignroance-based irrational arguments. Method 4 (preferred method): Watch this video: I find it interesting that Seifert (and thus by extension &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/how-to-debunk-a-myth-the-science-of-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to debunk a myth.  The science of it.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/screamingnerd.png?fit=331%2C392&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8F1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295"}],"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=33295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33296,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33295\/revisions\/33296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}