{"id":853,"date":"2010-06-16T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/06\/pseudoscientific_gambits\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:10:19","slug":"pseudoscientific-gambits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/06\/pseudoscientific-gambits\/","title":{"rendered":"pseudoscientific gambits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one struck a chord with me &#8211; it highlights the&nbsp;&#8216;Intelligent Design&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2005\/11\/missing-link-cd.html\">cdesign proponentsists<\/a>) tactics during in the Dover trial, and also various anti-vaccination shenanigans such as <a href=\"http:\/\/immunology.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/the_vaccineautism_scare\">the use of celebrity endorsements<\/a>. Well, any anti-science shenanigans, actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IrtPpCgvEH4\/S0P-VInZiNI\/AAAAAAAAByc\/QiLgOVCnk7k\/s1600-h\/charlatan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A strange game. The only losing move is not to play.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/charlatan.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treelobsters.com\/2010\/01\/118-skeptics-charlatans.html\">Tree Lobsters<\/a>, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratbags.com\/rsoles\/\">Millenium Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one struck a chord with me &#8211; it highlights the&nbsp;&#8216;Intelligent Design&#8217; (cdesign proponentsists) tactics during in the Dover trial, and also various anti-vaccination shenanigans such as the use of celebrity endorsements. Well, any anti-science shenanigans, actually&#8230; From Tree Lobsters, via the Millenium Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[3,10,17],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>pseudoscientific gambits : BioBlog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2010\/06\/pseudoscientific-gambits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"pseudoscientific gambits : BioBlog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This one struck a chord with me &#8211; it highlights the&nbsp;&#8216;Intelligent Design&#8217; (cdesign proponentsists) tactics during in the Dover trial, and also various anti-vaccination shenanigans such as the use of celebrity endorsements. 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