{"id":266,"date":"2006-04-11T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:23:02","slug":"propaganda-r-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda R Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, to be sure, delighted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a> has elected to put a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forkids\/kidsclub\/flash\/index.html\">Web site specifically for kids<\/a> in an effort to get children more interested in science. Good for them!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, given the current administration&#8217;s noteworthy track record on science in general\u2014and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/04\/science\/04climate.html?ex=1296709200&#038;en=3c85e8bcaed34754&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">science at NASA in particular<\/a>\u2014I&#8217;m not 100% comfortable with what they might be forced to foist off on our impressionable Youf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Kids! Be a part of the wonderful world of Science! Learn why global warming is nothing to be worried about! Plumb the sanitized-for-your-spiritual-protection origins of the Unverse! Thrill to the bizarre claim that no mutation has ever proved to be beneficial to a species!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what they might come up with for a mascot: puppet, perhaps? Ooh, how about Pinocchio? Controlled by strings <em>and<\/em> a habitual liar.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, to be sure, delighted that NASA has elected to put a Web site specifically for kids in an effort to get children more interested in science. Good for them! On the other hand, given the current administration&#8217;s noteworthy track record on science in general\u2014and science at NASA in particular\u2014I&#8217;m not 100% comfortable with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}