{"id":1041,"date":"2015-08-06T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T14:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?page_id=1041"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:46:39","slug":"why-we-should-trust-scientists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/?page_id=1041","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Oreskes: Why We Should Trust Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the work of Naomi Oreskes while following a MOOC on Climate Change Denial. She&#8217;s pretty impressive. Here she gives the low-down on how science works and why scientists are deserving of being believed. Don&#8217;t bother watching if you are any of the following: anti-vaxxer, creationist, flat-earther, astrologer, etc etc You get the picture.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed-ssl.ted.com\/talks\/naomi_oreskes_why_we_should_believe_in_science.html\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the work of Naomi Oreskes while following a MOOC on Climate Change Denial. She&#8217;s pretty impressive. Here she gives the low-down on how science works and why scientists are deserving of being believed. Don&#8217;t bother watching if you are any of the following: anti-vaxxer, creationist, flat-earther, astrologer, etc etc You get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4323,"parent":1166,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1041","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4328,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1041\/revisions\/4328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}