{"id":5260,"date":"2012-04-25T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:43:42","slug":"skepticism-as-a-cultural-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/skepticism-as-a-cultural-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepticism as a cultural phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skepticism is a cultural phenomenon. I know that many self-declared skeptics prefer to &#8230; ah &#8230; believe otherwise, or as they would perhaps say, they have deduced from pure principles using sound logic that Skepticism is rational behavior and there is nothing cultural about it. But they are wrong, and that is trivially easy to prove&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/04\/skepticism_is_a_cultural_pheno.php\">I wrote this here.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skepticism is a cultural phenomenon. I know that many self-declared skeptics prefer to &#8230; ah &#8230; believe otherwise, or as they would perhaps say, they have deduced from pure principles using sound logic that Skepticism is rational behavior and there is nothing cultural about it. But they are wrong, and that is trivially easy to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/skepticism-as-a-cultural-phenomenon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skepticism as a cultural phenomenon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1mQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260"}],"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=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}